Franz Lefler, Playing Putti, 1800s, Oil Painting

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Painting "Putti" by Franz Lefler (1831–1898)

Signed "F. Lefler"

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions:

Image size: 153.5 x 251.5 cm
… Read more Painting "Putti" by Franz Lefler (1831–1898)

Signed "F. Lefler"

Oil on wood panel

Dimensions:

Image size: 153.5 x 251.5 cm
Frame size: 173 x 271 cm

Franz Lefler (born 1831 in Langenbruck, Bohemia; died June 19, 1898, in Weissenbach an der Triesting) was an Austrian painter.

After studying at the Academies of Fine Arts in Vienna and Prague, Lefler settled in Vienna in 1858. He primarily painted allegories, depictions of children, genre and history paintings, portraits, ceiling and wall paintings, and theater curtains, for example, for the Augsburg City Theater. Franz Lefler, like the librettist and co-director of the Theater an der Wien, Camillo Walzel, spent his summers in Weissenbach an der Triesting. Franz Lefler created frescoes in the Neo-Mannerist style on several hotel and villa facades in Weissenbach. In addition to his intensive exploration of the theme of childhood in artistic representation and his independent incorporation of influences from the Makart style and Egyptian fashion, his work also includes engagement with socially critical themes.

Lefler's son, Heinrich, was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, as well as a painter and stage designer. See less