Schnorr Von Carolsfeld, Julius
Related Category: European Art, 1600 to the Present: Biographies
(y
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s shnôr fən kä´rôlsfĕlt), 1794–1872, German religious and historical painter and draftsman. He studied with his father, Veit Hans Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1764–1841), a painter and engraver, and in Vienna. In 1817 he went to Rome and joined the
Nazarenes; with them he worked on the frescoes of the Villa Massimo, contributing his
Orlando Furioso. In 1827 he was summoned by King Louis I of Bavaria to Munich, where he was professor and later director of the academy and decorated the palace with his
Nibelungen frescoes. Schnorr is best known, however, for his vigorous drawings for the illustrated Bible,
Bibel in Bildern (1851–60).
