Heinrich Foelix (born 1732, † 1803)
• Was a German court painter.
• Foelix was the son of Johann Conrad Foelix and his wife Veronika.
• At the Electoral Court of Trier in Ehrenbreitstein, he was available at the age of 23 as a portrait painter of the Elector Franz Georg von Schönborn.
• He created several portraits for his employer.
• Soon after taking office in 1756, his successor Johann IX Philipp von Walderdorff gave the young painter a training trip to Paris.
• In 1758 he was back in Ehrenbreitstein, and by 1775 at the latest he received the title of court painter.
• Together with Januarius Zick, with whom he was a friend and who was a teacher to him, Foelix participated in the furnishing of the electoral hunting and pleasure palace of Engers
• There, between 1760 and 1762, he created a cycle of six oil paintings with hunting motifs.
• On 4 April 1769 he married the Electoral Trier court singer Eva Margaretha Anschuez.
• The couple had ten children, including the painter Heinrich Foelix.
• From the 1780s onwards, the family fell into financial difficulties.
• In 1801, the family, which had still lived in the Coenen House in Ehrenbreitstein in 1799, had to move to the poorest quarter of Koblenz.
