Felix Ivo Leicher (1727 - 1812)
• Was a Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works.
• He was born in the Silesian town Bílovec, today on the wall to the right of the main entrance of the parish church is a plaque that hangs in his memory.
• He was apprenticed to a weaver, and later studied cutlery at school.
• But his break came in a local painter shop with Francis Andrew Schaffer, where he learned the basics of painting.
• Painting excited him and it became his entire life.
• From 1751 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and in 1754 in a competition he received the second prize for painting Anointing Saul the King.
• His teacher there was Franz Anton Maulbertsch.
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Felix Ivo Leicher, The Morning, late 18th century
Original, Szepmuveszeti, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Visited in 2019.
Felix Ivo Leicher, The Evening, late 18th century
Original, Szepmuveszeti, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Visited in 2019.
Felix Ivo Leicher, Joseph Calasanz with Hungarian Youth in front of the Virgin, 1767
Original, Szepmuveszeti, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Visited in 2019.
Felix Ivo Leicher, Joseph Calasanz with Hungarian Youth in front of the Virgin, 1767
