Felix Ivo Leicher

Felix Ivo Leicher

Felix Ivo Leicher (born May 19, 1727 in Wagstadt , Moravia , † February 20, 1812 in Neubau ) was an Austrian painter .

Life

Leicher was originally a weaver by trade. 1745–49 he became a student of the otherwise unknown painter Franz Schaffer and in 1751 came to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where he was a student of Franz Anton Maulbertsch . In 1754 he received a 2nd prize for his painting Anointing Saul . Leicher was a permanent colleague of Maulbertsch, from whose works it is often difficult to distinguish his own, as he remained stylistically attached to his teacher throughout his life. Some paintings were also signed jointly by both artists. Leicher mainly painted religious themes as altarpieces for churches in Vienna, but in 1786 he also had an exhibition of his paintings with secular subjects.

Works

High altar and 2 side altar paintings in the parish church of St. Thekla, Vienna-Wieden

• Altarpiece in the Trinity Church , Fulnek
• Side altar painting of St. Anna and Barbara in Nassiedel (1788)
• Altarpieces for the Church of St. Thekla , Vienna-Wieden (1755/56)
• Holy Family , side altar of the Piarist Church , Vienna (1763)
• Altar in the Barnabite College, Vienna (1765/66)
• The Holy Kinship , oil on copper, 92.5 × 60 cm, 1770, Belvedere , Vienna
• Altar of the Trattnerhof Chapel, Vienna (1777)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Leicher, Felix Ivo . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1865, p. 322 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Leicher Felix Ivo. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 13 ( digitized version , entry in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna).
• Lubomír Slavíček: Felix Ivo Leicher, a painter without qualities? Attempt to define the style of his oeuvre . In: Eduard Hindelang , Lubomír Slavíček: Franz Anton Maulbertsch and Central Europe. Festschrift for the 30th anniversary of the Langenargen Museum . Museum Langenargen et al., Langenargen et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022656-4 , pp. 221–243.

Web links

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