Friedrich Schilcher
1811 - 1881
Friedrich Schilcher was an Austrian portrait, genre, and history painter, and decorative designer.
Schilcher was born in Vienna on 1 September 1811. He studied at the Vienna Academy, undertook study trips to Hungary and Transylvania, and became the president of Vienna Künstlerhaus. He died on 6 May 1881 at Unterdöbling in Vienna, and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. In 1975 the Schilchergasse (street) in Vienna's 14th borough of Penzing, was named after him.
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