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François Jacques Fleischbein (1804–1868) was a German painter who lived and worked in .
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François Jacques Fleischbein (1804–1868) was a German painter who lived and worked in .
Biography
Fleischbein was born in Godramstein, Palatinate, nowadays Germany, in 1804. He studied painting in Paris withAnne-Louis Girodet
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. In 1833, he and his wife, Marie Louis Tetu, immigrated to cosmopolitan , thus joining the community of international painters seeking fame in Louisiana
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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.
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*''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 23External links
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