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Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg, Germany but was brought to America as a child. He was notable for his famous historical painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. It is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

At the age of twenty-five he had earned enough to take himself to Düsseldorf for a course of art study at the Royal Academy . Almost immediately he began painting historical subjects, his first work, Columbus before the Council of Salamanca was purchased by the Düsseldorf Art Union .

In 1860 he was commissioned by the United States Congress to decorate a stairway in the CapitolA Capitol is a building that houses the administration of certain governments. The word derives from the Capitoline Hill in Rome, seat of the government of the Roman Republic. Capitol (TV series was also a soap opera which ran on CBS from 1982 to 1987. Building in Washington, DCWashington, DC officially the District of Columbia (also known as DC Washington and, historically, the Federal City is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America. Residents of the city and its surrounding suburbs refer to, for which he painted a large composition, Westward the Course of Empire takes its Way .

Late in life, he became a member of the National Academy of DesignThe National Academy of Design in New York, (often termed simple The National Academy) is an honorary association of American artists, with a museum and a school of fine arts. It was founded in 1825 by Samuel F. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole and oth.

He died in Washington, D.C. in his 53rd year.