Franz Lefler

Odalisque (1880)

Fresco detail, child with ball (detail), The break from work, fresco detail

Franz Lefler (* 1831 in Langenbruck , Bohemia, † June 19, 1898 in Weissenbach an der Triesting ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

After studying at the academies of fine arts in Vienna and Prague , Lefler settled in Vienna in 1858. He mainly painted allegories, depictions of children, genre and history pictures , portraits, ceiling and wall paintings as well as theater curtains, for example of the Stadttheater Augsburg . Franz Lefler spent his summers as well as the librettist and co-director of the Theater an der Wien, Camillo Walzel in Weissenbach an der Triesting . Franz Lefler created frescoes in neo-Romanesque style on some of the facades of hotels and villas in Weissenbach. In addition to his intensive painterly examination of the subject of the child in the visual representation and the independent processing of influences from the Makart style and Egyptian fashion, the preoccupation with socially critical topics is also part of Franz Lefler's work.

Franz Lefler's son Heinrich was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, painter and set designer.

Works (selection)

Seizure of Congo. A white child with a pimple hat embraces a colored child who is carrying a bowl of fruit in his hands
A decoration picture for a salon
The congratulations and dance lessons each given a group of five children outdoors
Happiness in love, happiness in marriage (also appeared as copper etching)
Pleasure and sorrow (copper etching)

literature

Lefler, Franz. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 824 ( archive.org ).
Lefler, Franz . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 22 : Krügner – Leitch . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1928, p. 559 .
Schöny: Lefler Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 90.

Web links

Commons : Franz Lefler - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Stadttheater Augsburg (ceiling painting, destroyed).
^ German house treasure . Volume 21, 1895, p. 628-629 ( karl-may-gesellschaft.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Lefler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dlouhý Most , Langenbruck, Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	June 19, 1898
Place of death	Weissenbach an der Triesting

[1] Stadttheater Augsburg (ceiling painting, destroyed).

[2] German house treasure . Volume 21, 1895, p. 628-629 ( karl-may-gesellschaft.de ).