François Fleischbein
German American painter, daguerreotypist, and ambrotypist
About François Fleischbein
Lived 1804 – 1868 (aged 63–64). François Fleischbein was an American photographer, painter, daguerreotypist and ambrotypist.
François Jacques Fleischbein (1804–1868) was a German painter who lived and worked in New Orleans.
Biography Fleischbein was born in Godramstein, Palatinate, nowadays Germany, in 1804. He studied painting in Paris with Anne-Louis Girodet. In 1833, he and his wife, Marie Louis Tetu, immigrated to cosmopolitan New Orleans, thus joining the community of international painters seeking fame in Louisiana. 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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German American painter, daguerreotypist, and ambrotypist (1804–1868)
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François Fleischbein was born in 1804 in Godramstein.
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François Fleischbein died in 1868 in New Orleans.
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François Fleischbein was a photographer, painter, daguerreotypist and ambrotypist.
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François Fleischbein was American.
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