François Fleischbein

François Jacques Fleischbein (1804–1868) was a German painter who lived and worked in New Orleans.

Biography

Fleischbein was born in Godramstein, Palatinate, nowadays Germany, in 1804. He studied painting in Paris with Anne-Louis Girodet. In 1833, he and his wife, Marie Louis Tetu, immigrated to cosmopolitan New Orleans, thus joining the community of international painters seeking fame in Louisiana. Although born Franz Joseph, Fleischbein decided to change his name to François in order to fit with his Creole clients of Gallic descent.

His paintings show a French academic style as well as a sweetness and charm common to 19th-century German painting.

With the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, Fleischbein also worked as an early photographer, an enterprise in which his wife took part.

References

Bibliography

Old Sketchbook recalls early New Orleans artist, Times-Picayuna, George E. Jordan, 1976 Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees, Herman de Bachelle Seebold, vol. 1, p 23

External links

Identity theft: A rare painting damaged, a story half-told, and a reckoning about bias in art stewardship - Article about a Fleischbein painting

19th-century German painters

19th-century American male artists

German male painters

19th-century American painters

American male painters

1804 births

1868 deaths

German emigrants to the United States

19th-century American photographers

Artists from New Orleans

Photographers from Louisiana

People from Landau

Painters from Louisiana

19th-century German male artists