Friedländer, Friedrich, Ritter von Malheim#
Friedlaender, Friedrich, Ritter* von Malheim, b. Uhliřske Janovice, Czech Republic (then Kohljanowitz), Jan. 14, 1825, d. Vienna, June 13, 1901, history painter and genre painter, studied under F. G. Waldmueller and others. Travelled to Italy, Duesseldorf and Paris and constantly worked in Vienna from 1856. One of the most important founding members of the Wiener Kuenstlergenossenschaft, an association of artists in Vienna. At first preferred historical subjects, but later turned to sociocritical topics and genre painting (after 1866 especially invalids).
Literature#
Oe. Malerei des 19. Jh. aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue, Innsbruck 1970.