Curriculum:
- Born June 3rd 1921 at Sypniewo in Western Prussia
- Studies: history of arts, classical archeology, history and german studies in Bonn, Berlin, Munich and Florence from 1938 to 1943
- the Graduation in Munich at Hans Jantzen with: "Studien zum Fruehwerk Mantegnas"
- 1944-48 worked at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (at first as a volunteer, afterwards Assistant Librarian)
- 1949-51 collaborated with Ludwig Grote on: Twentieth Century Art, which was the first large exhibition to be held in Munich after the 2nd world war.
- 1952-86 worked in the Germanic National Museum of Nuremberg, as a government curator

After her retirement Leonie von Wilckens lived and worked in Munich and here she died Dec 25th 1997.

As a curator of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, Leonie von Wilckens was in charge of the collections of furniture, textiles, toys and jewellery. Some early publications were dedicated to toys in particular the doll’s houses of Nuremberg. But already by the 1950s she was involved with textiles and this became the most important part of her research work. She published many papers in journals and contributed to encyclopaedias and other part works and, after her retirement, in a series of catalogues and research works.

Some of her most important papers are:
- Die textilen Schaetze der Lorenzkirche zu Nuernberg, 1977
- Die Teppiche der Sebalduskirche zu Nuernberg, 1979
- Seidengewebe im Zusammenhang mit der heiligen Elisabeth, 1981
- Zur kunstgeschichtlichen Einordnung der textilen Grabfunde aus der Sepultur des Bamberger Domkapitels, 1987
- Mittelalterliche Seidenstoffe des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, 1992
- Die mittelalterlichen Textilien des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums Braunschweig, 1994
- Der Paramentenschatz der Landsberger Jesuitenkirche Heiligkreuz, 1994
- Die textilen Kuenste von der Spaetantike bis um 1500, 1991 (first volume)
- Geschichte der deutschen Textilkunst vom spaeten Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart, 1997 (second volume)

Fuller obituaries have been written by Dr. Birgitt Borkopp from Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich:
- the coming CIETA - Bulletin of 1998,
- Deutsche Zeitschrift fuer Kunstgeschichte,
- Zeitschrift fuer Waffen- und Kostuemkunde

Dr. Jutta Zander-Seidel is preparing a detailed list of publications for the journal of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg.
http://www.gnm.de/Download/anz/Anz1999.pdf