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Veit Hanns Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld (11 May 1764 – 30 April 1841) was a
Leipzig-Lexikon: Veit Hanns Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld
18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 1764 births 1841 deaths Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig faculty People from Schneeberg, Saxony 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub
Veit Hanns Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld (11 May 1764 – 30 April 1841) was a German
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portraitist.
Life
Schnorr was born in Schneeberg. He was a friend of the poetJohann Gottfried Seume
Johann Gottfried Seume (29 January 176313 June 1810) was a German author.
Biography
Seume was born in Poserna (now part of Lützen, Saxony-Anhalt). He was educated first at Borna, then at the Nikolai school and University of Leipzig. The study o ...
, whom he set out to accompany in 1801 on a journey to Syracuse, Sicily
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, but separated from him after travelling no further than Vienna
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In 1803 he returned to Leipzig and became an assistant teacher at the Leipzig Academy of Art. In 1814, after the death of Johann Friedrich August Tischbein
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, known as the ''Leipziger Tischbein'' (9 March 1750, Maastricht - 21 June 1812, Heidelberg) was a German portrait painter from the Tischbein family of artists.
Biography
He received his first lessons from his ...
, he became director, which he remained until 1841.
Schnorr was a significant portraitist. His works include, among many others, portraits of Seume and Friedrich Rochlitz
Johann Friedrich Rochlitz (12 February 1769 – 16 December 1842) was a German playwright, musicologist and art and music critic. His most notable work is his autobiographical account ''Tage der Gefahr'' (''Days of Danger'') about the Battle of ...
.
Family
Two of his sons also became prominent painters: *Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (26 March 1794 – 24 May 1872) () was a German painter, chiefly of Biblical subjects. As a young man he associated with the painters of the Nazarene movement who revived the florid Renaissance style in religious ar ...
and
* Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld (11 October 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German Romantic painter, engraver and lithographer.
Schnorr von Carolsfeld was born in Königsberg, the son and pupil of the artist Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsf ...
Works
* ''Briefe über Zeichenkunst und Malerei'', in: ''Zweites Toilettengeschenk für Damen'', Leipzig 1806 * ''Unterricht in der Zeichenkunst als ein Gegenstand der seineren Erziehung zur Bildung des Geschmacks für die höheren Stände'', Leipzig 1810 * ''Anmerkungen und Zusätze zur 3. Auflage des Spazierganges nach Syrakus'' (in the third part of Seume's book, published in 1811) * ''Meine Lebensgeschichte, zugleich als ein Sonst und Jetzt in einem Zeitraum von 55 Jahren'', ed. Otto Werner Förster, Leipzig: Taurus Verlag, 2000Literature
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Leipzig-Lexikon: Veit Hanns Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld
18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 1764 births 1841 deaths Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig faculty People from Schneeberg, Saxony 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub