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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 Academic staff of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig 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, to Councillor and excise inspector in Schneeberg Johann Gottlob Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1713–1788) and his wife Charlotte Sophia Schnorr von Carolsfeld, nee Laurentius (1720–1798), he was he was the eighth of 16 children. His paternal great-grandfather wasiron
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and cobalt
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magnate Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Veit Hans Schnorr (15 March 1644 in Schneeberg, Saxony - 26 January 1715 in Schneeberg) was a German iron and cobalt
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(1644–1715). He was a friend of the poet Johann 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 ...
.
Family
Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld was twice married. His first wife was Juliane Christiane Lange (1766–1815). After his first wife in 1797 he remarried Eleonore Wilhelmine Irmisch (1773–1851), daughter of Classical philologist and school principal in Plauen (Vogtland) Gottlieb Wilhelm Irmisch (1732–1794) and his wife Friederike Henriette Eleonore Schlegel (1748–1825), daughter of Johann Lebrecht Schlegel (1717–1754) and niece of poet and clergymanJohann Adolf Schlegel
Johann Adolf Schlegel (17 September 1721 – 16 September 1793) was a German poet and clergyman.
Biography
Schlegel was born in Meißen, Saxony on 17 September 1721, and was the brother of Johann Elias Schlegel (1719–1749) and (1726–1780). H ...
(1721–1793), who was a father of brothers August Wilhelm Schlegel
August Wilhelm von Schlegel (Schlegel until 1812; ; ; 8 September 176712 May 1845) was a German Indologist, poet, translator and critic. With his brother Friedrich Schlegel, he was a leading influence within Jena Romanticism. His translations o ...
(1767–1845) and Friedrich Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich (after 1814: von) Schlegel ( ; ; 10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829) was a German literary critic, philosopher, and Indologist. With his older brother, August Wilhelm Schlegel, he was one of the main figures of Jena Roma ...
(1772–1829).
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 ...
and
* Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld (11 October 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German Romanticism, Romantic painter, engraver and lithographer.
Schnorr von Carolsfeld was born in Königsberg, the son and pupil of the artist Veit Hanns Schnorr ...
At Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld was also daughter of second marriage:
* Charlotte Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1806–1877), in 1833 got married lawyer (1805–1867)
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, 2000References
Literature
*External links
Leipzig-Lexikon: Veit Hanns Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld
18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 1764 births 1841 deaths Academic staff of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig People from Schneeberg, Saxony 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub