Felix Ivo Leicher

Felix Ivo Leicher ( born May 19, 1727 Wagstadt, Moravia, † February 20, 1812 in new construction) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Leicher was originally weaver by trade. 1745-49 he became a student of the otherwise not known painter Francis Schaffer and came in 1751 to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he was a pupil of Franz Anton Maulbertsch. For his painting anointing of Saul, he received in 1754 a second prize. Leicher was a regular contributor to Maulbertsch, whose works his own are often difficult to distinguish, as he remained stylistically life arrested his teacher. Some paintings were signed jointly by both artists. Leicher painted mainly religious themes as altarpieces for churches in Vienna, but in 1786 he had an exhibition of his paintings with secular subjects.

Works

• Altarpiece in the Church of the Trinity, Fulnek
• Side altar paintings of Sts. Anna and Barbara in Nassiedel (1788 )
• Altarpieces for the church of St. Thekla, Vienna - Wieden (1755 /56)
• Holy Family, side altar of the Piaristenkirche, Vienna ( 1763)
• Altar in Barnabitenkollegium, Vienna ( 1765/66 )
• The Holy Family, oil on copper, 92.5 x 60 cm, 1770, Belvedere, Vienna
• Altar of Trattnerhofkapelle, Vienna (1777 )