Friedrich Johann Gottlieb, genannt Franz Lieder

Friedrich Johann Gottlieb, genannt Franz Lieder

Lieder, Friedrich, Johann Gottlieb, called Franz
(Potsdam 1780 - 1859 Budapest)
In 1797 Lieder was represented at the Berlin Academy' s exhibitions with portrait miniatures and drawings and in 1802 with a portrait of Napoleon. In 1804 he went to Paris where he studied at the Ècole des Beaux-Arts. There is evidence of his working for the Hungarian nobility in Budapest, Pressburg and Tyrnau. Since 1810 or 1812 he was a resident of Vienna, where his artistic style became strongly influenced by Isabey' s. Painting portraits for the duration of the Vienna Congress he won the patronage of Metternich in 1815, who took him along to Verona and had him trained as lithographer in Paris. From 1816 to 1819 Lieder was court painter to Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, who commissioned him to paint the royal family and to illustrate the regulations for Prussian uniforms. From 1820 onwards he alternately lived in Vienna and Budapest and became a member of the Vienna Academy in 1824. Apart from miniature portraits he also created watercolour and oil paintings; less often he worked as lithographer and also provided sketches for lithographs.