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Felix Schlesinger

Felix Schlesinger (1833 - 1910) was active/lived in Germany, France.  Felix Schlesinger is known for Narrative domestic genre and figure painting, children, family scenes.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the city of Hamburg was a sovereign state within the German Confederation, a loosely organization group of thirty-nine states created at the Vienna Congress of 1815 when Europe reorganized itself after the fall of Napoleon. It was into this independent and thriving commercial port city that Felix Schlesinger was born on October 9, 1833. His older brother Karl was born five years earlier in Lausanne, Switzerland, which suggests that the Schlesinger family had only recently moved to Hamburg.

When Schlesinger was eight years old, in May of 1842, Hamburg experienced a massive fire that burned for four days and left 20,000 people homeless. There is no record of how the Schlesinger family was  affected by this, but at the very least, it would have been a traumatic event for all of the city’s residents. The fact that both Felix and Karl Schlesinger were sent to art school also hints at the possibility that painting was part of a family tradition, per   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10500 characters.]  Artist bio

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