Friedrich Schilcher
Friedrich Schilcher (1811 – 1881) was an Austrian portrait, genre, and history painter, and decorative designer. Schilcher was born in Vienna on 1 September 1811. He studied at the Vienna Academy, undertook study trips to Hungary and Transylvania, and became the president of Vienna Künstlerhaus.
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Friedrich Schilcher

Friedrich von Amerling · Vorstand der Deutschen Jahrhundertausstellung (Herausgeber): „Katalog zur Ausstellung deutscher Kunst aus der Zeit von 1775–1875 in der Königlichen Nationalgalerie Berlin.“. Verlag F. Bruckmann AG, M · Public domain
- Name
- Friedrich Schilcher
- Born
- 1 September 1811
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austria
- Died
- 6 May 1881
- Occupation
- Painter
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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Friedrich Schilcher (1811 – 1881) was an Austrian portrait, genre, and history painter, and decorative designer. Schilcher was born in Vienna on 1 September 1811. He studied at the Vienna Academy, undertook study trips to Hungary and Transylvania, and became the president of Vienna Künstlerhaus.
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Friedrich Schilcher (1811–1881) was a painter. The painter was born and died in Vienna.
Friedrich Schilcher was educated at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The painter worked in Vienna. Works are held at Belvedere, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Slovak National Gallery.
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He died on 6 May 1881 at Unterdöbling in Vienna, and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. In 1975 the Schilchergasse (street), in Vienna's 14th borough of Penzing, was named after him.
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• Name — Friedrich Schilcher • Born — 1 September 1811 • Birthplace — Vienna, Austria • Died — 6 May 1881 • Place of death — Vienna, Austria • Occupation — Painter
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• restoration of ceiling frescoes by Marcantonio Chiarini in the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene, Innere Stadt, Vienna (1841) • restoration of ceiling frescoes in the Great Boardroom of Palais Niederösterreich, Vienna • stage curtain for the Hungarian National Theatre, Budapest • altarpiece for the Ladislauskirche, Oradea, Romania • Cardinal virtues, frescoes in the prelate courtyard of Melk Abbey (1852) • Glory of Saint Benedict, ceiling painting for the entrance hall at Melk Abbey (1852) • The circular dance of angels, painting behind the high altar at St Joseph's Church in Kahlenberg, Vienna (1852) • painting for the Finsterle family mausoleum in the parish cemetery at Kahlenbergerdorf in Döbling, Vienna • decoration in the parish church of Leobersdorf (1859-1862) • portrait of Franz Joseph I of Austria of Austria (1860), oil on canvas, 123 × 95 cm • ceiling painting in the 'Schubert Room' at the Palais Dumba, Vienna, depicting aspects of Schubert's work, for Nikolaus Dumba • supraport frescoes for the Palais Schwarzenberg, Vienna • figurative painting for the curtain of the Theater an der Wien (1864) • Allegory of Austria, fresco in the Great Dining Room of the Austria Classic Hotel Wien, Vienna (destroyed 1945) • portrait of Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (Collection Liechtenstein, inv. No. GE 1841), oil on canvas, 55.4 × 47.4 cm Further paintings are in the Vienna Museum and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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1811
Friedrich Schilcher born at Vienna.
1881
Friedrich Schilcher died at Vienna.
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- 1.Tzafettas, John; Konecny, Elvira (2015); "Chapter 5 – The Dumba Palace, Palais Am Parkring" in Nikolaus Dumba (1830-1900): A Dazzling Figure in Imperial Vienna : Maecenas of Music and Fine Art, National Benefactor of Austria and Greece, Akakia Publications
- 2.Zeitschrift für allgemeine Museologie und verwandte Wissenschaften (1878), Dresden, W. Baensch, p.80; “The painter Friedrich Schilcher died on the 6th of December in Unter-Döbling near Vienna". Retrieved 29 December 2020
- 3.Neumann, Wilhelm, 1849-1919; Gemälde-Sammlung, Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlosche (1894), Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Gemälde der Friedrich Wilhelm Brederloschen Sammlung zu Riga, Riga, W.F. Häcker, p.78. Retrieved 29 December 2020
- 4."Friedrich Schilcher" in Führer durch die Gemäldegalerie (1906), Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie, p.600. Retrieved 29 December 2020
- 5.Schnerich, Alfred (1921); Vienna's churches and chapels : in art and cultural-historical representation, Amalthea Verlag, Zurich, pp.219,220
- 6.Clive, Peter (1997); Schubert and his World: A Biographical Dictionary, Clarendon Press, pp.41,42.
- 7."Theater an der Wien", Theatre-architecture.eu, Theatre Database. Retrieved 29 December 2020
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