Felix Shadov (1819 - 1861)

Felix Shadov

Felix Schadow was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a portrait painter and genre painter, the son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow and half-brother of the painter Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow.

Felix Schadow studied in Dresden, where he created his first known painting, Christ and Mary and Martha. After his father's death in 1850, he decorated the walls of his studio in his parents' reconstructed home with a cycle of frescoes depicting his father's life. The master's famous works include paintings such as "Joseph and his brothers reunited in Egypt," "The Engagement of Mary and Joseph," and "The Family Before the Burning Ruins."