Friedrich Schilcher Explained

Friedrich Schilcher
Birth Date:	1 September 1811
Birth Place:	Vienna, Austria
Death Place:	Vienna, Austria
Occupation:	Painter
Nationality:	Austrian

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.^[1] 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.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Works

• 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)^[5]
• 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^{[1] [6]}
• supraport frescoes for the Palais Schwarzenberg, Vienna
• figurative painting for the curtain of the Theater an der Wien (1864)^[7]
• 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.

External links

• • "Works of Art", Friedrich Schilcher (österreichisch, 1811–1881), on Artnet

Notes and References

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. https://archive.org/details/zeitschriftfural14unse/page/80/mode/1up Zeitschrift für allgemeine Museologie und verwandte Wissenschaften
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. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_S5UZAAAAYAAJ/page/n599/mode/1up "Friedrich Schilcher"
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. https://www.theatre-architecture.eu/en/db/?theatreId=322&detail=subject "Theater an der Wien"