Felix Schlesinger

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Girl and boy with rabbits in the stable
In the emigration office (in the passport and police room before emigration) , 1859

Felix Schlesinger (born October 9, 1833 in Hamburg ; † 1910 ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Felix Schlesinger began his training in Hamburg in 1848 with Friedrich Heimerdinger . He is one of the best-known painters of children's motifs, who were sought internationally as early as the 19th century and collected mainly in England and America. His further training took place in the world centers of figurative painting at the time: in Antwerp, in Düsseldorf at the art academy and with Rudolf Jordan and in Paris. From 1861 to 1863 he worked in Frankfurt am Main , then he settled in Munich. From here, the exhibitions in Dresden, Berlin and Vienna were loaded with depictions of children in the country who, with sure instinct, met the tastes of the German and international public.

The painter Carl Schlesinger (1825-1893) was his brother.

literature

Web links

Commons : Felix Schlesinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Schlesinger - "In the passport and police office before emigration" , website in the portal dah-bremerhaven.de (German Emigration Center Foundation), accessed on August 4, 2014
  2. ↑ Schlesinger, Carl . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 105 . .
personal data
SURNAME Schlesinger, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 1910