Eugen Felix

Eugen Felix (* April 27, 1836 or 1837 in Proßnitz ( Moravia ) as Veith honor tribe; † August 21, 1906 in Vienna) was an Austrian painter. He said after his 1827 died in Proßnitz grandfather, the manufacturer Veith honor tribe.

Life

Eugen Felix was a pupil Ferdinand Georg Müller forest, then studied in Paris, where he worked in the studio of Léon Cogniet, and returned after he still made ​​more trips in 1868 to Vienna.

At first he put renewed emphasis on the church as well as the painting genre painting. Works from this period were, for example, the first friend in the Belvedere at Vienna, The painter's studio, The small -wishers, the falconer ( The Falconer ). Later he turned to the mythological painting ( The Bacchae ) and the portrait to which he, supported by a pleasing color and an elegant shape hand signals, with particular luck with the aristocracy and the high finance world cultivated.