Reinhold Lepsius (14 June 1857 – 16 March 1922) was a German painter, especially of portraits, and graphic artist.
He was born in Berlin, the son of Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), professor at the Frederick William University and founder of the Egyptian Museum, and his wife Elisabeth Klein (1828–1899), daughter of the composer Bernhard Klein and great-granddaughter of Friedrich Nicolai. His younger brother Johannes Lepsius became a Protestant theologian, humanist and orientalist.
Reinhold Lepsius was stylistically affiliated taking into consideration the Berlin Secession bookish and to some degree following German Impressionism. He was one of the first portraitists to paint after photographs. Lepsius became known for his portraits of the archaeologist Ernst Curtius, the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey, and the poet Stefan George who organized scholarly soirées at his home in Westend. He was elected a aficionado of the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1916 and also allied the Deutscher Künstlerbund (Association of German Artists).
He was married to the painter Sabine Lepsius, née Graef (1864–1942), sister of the art historian Botho Graef. The couple had a son, Stefan, born in 1897 and named after Stefan George. He was killed in World War I in yet to be April 1917. Lepsius died in Berlin five years later, aged 64. Numerous of his portraits commissioned by Jewish clients have comply be regarded as lost after Nazi looting.
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