Friedrich (Ritter von Malheim) Friedlander - Artist Info

About Friedrich (Ritter von Malheim) Friedlander

Name variants

Friedrich Friedlaender, Friedrich Friedlander von Malheim, Friedrich Friedlaender Malheim
  • Biography

    Friedrich Friedländer Ritter von Malheim was a German-Bohemian genre painter born in 1825 in Kohljanowitz/Bohemia. He studied at the Vienna Academy from 1844 and was a pupil of Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. He went on a study trip to Italy in 1850 and stayed in Düsseldorf from 1851-54, where he became a member of the artists' association Malkasten. In 1854, he went to Paris and turned to genre painting. He lived in Vienna from 1856 and became a member of the Academy in 1866. In 1869, he was one of the main co-founders of the Vienna Artists' Association. In 1889, he was elevated to the peerage "Friedrich Friedländer Ritter von Malheim". Some of his children, Alfred, Camilla, and Hedwig, also turned to painting. Sources: Thieme-Becker, Boettich...

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