1931 Felix is born in Munich, Germany on September 7th.
1939 Due to WWII the family moves to Greiz, Thuringia. Father Max, himself a violinist, organizes private lessons in drawing and painting to distract from daily life. Private lessons were already given earlier in Munich. At the end of the war Felix starts an apprenticeship as a house and decorative painter.
1945 Change of residence back to Munich and employment at Bavaria Filmkunst (nowadays Bavaria Film) as a decorative painter and painter for stage scenes. In his spare time, Felix himself gives now drawing and painting lessons and in turn, receives lessons in ice skating.
1950 By coincidence, what started as a hobby became a profession. For the next 20 years, Felix is employed as a professional figure skater for Eisballet Maxi Baier, Holiday on Ice and Wiener Eisrevue. During these years painting becomes a regular pastime in between ice shows. Portraits, landscapes and still lifes are the main subjects, painted mostly in watercolor technique. In 1969 Felix ends his career as a professional figure skater and moves back to Munich.
1969 Opening of Hotel Pension Fürst, close to Odeonsplatz in the city center of Munich. The Hotel closed in 2008 and was until then run by his second wife, Vlasta Heininger, and his two sons, Patrick and Oliver.
1971 onward Acceptance as member of BBK Munich – Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (professional association of artists). Thanks to the BBK, Felix participates in several exhibitions that took place during the following years. Apart from these exhibitions, paintings are presented at his own hotel.
In terms of style and technique, the combination of tempera and gouache on Washi/Japanese paper is now favored and motives become more and more abstract. This influence comes from his favorite artists that include Emil Nolde, Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.
1980s/1990sThough still painting, family and daily business duties take up more time and no further exhibition takes place.
Besides still working with tempera, marker pens, sometimes in combination with watercolor, are used more frequently. Though still inclined to abstract art, motives are more and more deriving from real objects, especially dancing scenes as his hobbies include modern jazz dance and ballet at that time. Later on, motives become naive or completely abstract and can be seen as a form of color field painting.
1999 On 19th of June, Felix dies in Munich from serious illness.