Felix Schlesinger

The German genre painter Felix Schlesinger was an important representative of the Düsseldorf School. He grew up in a family of painters, which is why he also came into contact with artistic themes in his family environment. In 1848 he began his training with Friedrich Heimerdinger in Hamburg, where he was born and grew up. Heimerdinger was known for his still lifes and trompe-l'œil painting. Behind this term is an illusionistic painting, which creates a 3-D effect by stylistic means of perspective. This style was often used for elaborate art and ceiling paintings. Schlesinger later trained in Antwerp, Düsseldorf and Paris. These cities were considered the artistic centers of figurative painting at the time. Br/> In the early 1860s Felix Schlesinger lived and worked in Frankfurt am Main. Later he came to Munich and settled there permanently. He regularly exhibited his paintings in his new home, but he also found an interested public in Dresden, Berlin and Vienna. As a genre painter, the artist devoted himself to a central theme: the life of families in the countryside. He often depicted families and children. Research shows that little is known about the artist's private life, except for the works he left to posterity. But the family motifs in the pictures suggest that the artist himself was a husband and family man. Perhaps his wife and children can be seen in some of his paintings?