François Fleischbein

François Jacques Fleischbein (1804–1868) was a German painter who lived and worked in New Orleans.

Fleischbein was born in Godramstein, Palatinate, nowadays Germany, in 1804.

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.

[1] Although born Franz Joseph, Fleischbein decided to change his name to François in order to fit with his Creole clients of Gallic descent.

With the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, Fleischbein also worked as an early photographer, an enterprise in which his wife took part.