Stürzender Waldbach, 1880, Öl auf Leinwand, 220 × 172 cm
»Ludwig Richter had a fundamental influence on Leonhardi's conception of landscape and thus of art, as he awakened in Leonhardi an enthusiasm for the painterly beauty of his native nature, especially the Saxon and Bohemian surroundings, which always represented the landscape painter's most important artistic source. Like the Parisian landscape painters of the "Barbizon School" in the 1830s, who discovered the forest of Fontainebleau as a motif for their art, Leonhardi also fell under the spell of untouched forest nature.«