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Rose Sommer-Leypold (* 20). December 1909 in Schramberg; † March 21, 2003 in Immenstaad was a German painter.

Life and work
Sommer-Leypold was taken after graduation at the Queen Katharina Pen Gymnasium Stuttgart 1929 at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Hans Spiegel and Anton Kolig were their teachers. In 1933 she stopped her studies to help the parents in the agricultural business. After stays in Oslo and Italy, she resumed her studies with Anton Kolig in 1940 and became a master student and his assistant. In 1943 Kolig was dismissed at the behest of Hitler and Leypold was expelled to the Academy. In 1944 she took over the parental Hardthof. In 1946 her works were shown in two exhibitions in Tübingen and Konstanz. She married Rudolf Sommer in 1953, who died in 1984 after serious illness. After handing over the farm to her nephew in 1989, she devoted herself intensively to painting and travelled to Paris, Cyprus, Crete, Tunisia, Morocco and Turkey. On their 100th birthday, they paid tribute to Orangerie Draenert and Heimatverein Immenstaad e.V. with an exhibition from October 2009 to January 2010.

Literature
Ingrid von der Doll: Women painters in the 20th century. Hirmer Verlag 2000, ISBN 978-3-7774-8700-7
Gabriele Frommer: Lifetime work of a painter: the artist in succession of her teacher Anton Kolig / Rose Sommer-Leypold, Kressbronn 1995, ISBN 978-3-9804329-0-0
Painters of the Joseph Hierling Collection. Tutzing: Edition Joseph Hierling, 2018

Weblinks
Dissertation: Women at German art academies in the 20th century. Training opportunities for female artists from 1919 onwards with special consideration of the southern German art academies
Life and work
Biography

Portrait painters
Painter (Germany)
German
Born in 1909
Died in 2003
Woman