with Hermann Becker (Cologne); with Philipp von Foltz, Alexander Strehuber, and Hermann Anschutz at Munich Academy (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, 1864)
1869 –exhibits Frau Gedon at Grossen Internationale Kunstausstellung (Big International Exhibition) in Munich; Gustave Courbet invites Leibl to France after seeing the painting (meets Edouard Manet)
1870 – returns to Munich at the start of the Franco-Prussian war; begins producing etchings; center of “Leibl circle,” a group of artists that included Carl Schuch, Johann Sperl and Wilhelm Trübner
1873 – moves to Grasslfing; lives in various Bavarian villages for the rest of his life
Paris (1869-70)
Frau Gedon, 1869 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich)
Village Politicians, 1877 (Oskar Reinhart Foundation, Winterthur)
Bizanz, Rudolf. “Proto-modernist Aesthetic and Art-Criticism Amended – Behaviorist Doctrinaire-Realism to Extentiallist Process – Art and Wilhelm Leibl: Three Women in Church,” Art Criticism, vol. 8 no. 1 (1993): 97-108
Röhrl, Boris. Wilhelm Leibl: Leben und Werk. Hildesheim and New York: G. Olms, 1994 (in German)