Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Julius Veit Hans Schnorr von Carol Field ( born March 26, 1794 in Leipzig, † May 24, 1872 in Dresden ) was a painter of German Romanticism. Besides Friedrich Overbeck he is the most famous painters of the Nazarene art.
Life
Julius Schnorr comes from the family of artists by Carol Field. He is the youngest son and pupil of the painter Veit Schnorr von Hanns Carol Field ( 1764-1841 ). His brothers were also painters, Louis Ferdinand (1788-1853) and Eduard ( 1790-1819 ).
He attended the Thomas School in Leipzig. 1811 Julius Schnorr begins his studies at the Vienna Academy of Art. He joins a loose circle of artists, Ferdinand Johann von Olivier. These are close to the Nazarene art. In March 1817, he is admitted to the St. Luke, the artistic association that movement. This summer, he takes his brothers Ferdinand and Friedrich Olivier a trip to Salzburg, to be in his future artistic development as a landscape painter determining. In October he traveled with the poet Wilhelm Müller to Italy. About Venice and Florence, he finally reached Rome in January 1818, joining the resident Nazarenes. There he befriends 1826 with Carl Gottlieb Peschel.
In 1827 he was appointed by King Ludwig I as a professor at the Munich Academy of Art. In 1842 he was awarded the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. In 1846 he enters a professorship at the Academy of Art in Dresden and is director of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie.
With Carlsgrün iron and Karl Schnaase was founder and co-editor of Carol field of Christian art sheet for church, school and home (Stuttgart since 1858).
Julius Schnorr is buried together with his son, the tenor Ludwig Schnorr von Carol Field, the first singer of Tristan, on the Old Anne Cemetery in Dresden's southern suburb.
In 1937 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the Schnorr alley after him and his brother Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr.
Works
Julius Schnorr von Carol Field was the most distinguished landscape painter among the Nazarenes. Connoisseurs regard his depictions of the Albanians and Sabine hills of Italy's best landscapes of the 19th century. On the one hand a strong grounding in reality was important to him - his landscapes are in every detail true to life and not heroic or visionary like other romantic painters. On the other hand, one can not call it a realistic vistas: Even more important than the realism of the representation is in them a solemn introspection, which is often characterized by the association with a religious motif and typical of the Nazarene image is art. It illustrates these features, for example, in the painting The wide pine next to the Brühl near Mödling, which today is located in Vienna's Belvedere.
On behalf of the Naumburg canons Immanuel Christian Leberecht von Ampach Let the painting emerged from 1820, the children come to me, Christ blesses named for the Christ - cycle in Naumburg Cathedral the children. The painting is burnt in 1931 in Munich Glass Palace, parts of the preparatory boxes are located in the estate Rehbenitz in Behnhaus in Lübeck.
In the years 1821 to 1827 Julius Schnorr was instrumental in coloring in the Casino Massimo in Rome: he there painted the frescoes in Ariosto room. This large order founded mainly the artistic reputation of the Nazarene. In 1827 he returned to Vienna, where he married. After Schnorr received by King Ludwig I commissioned to paint five rooms with scenes from the Nibelungenlied in Königsbau the Munich Residence. He designed a complex romantic images cycle, however, was completed due to various difficulties until 1867. At this delay contributed among other things the order of Ludwig I in 1835 when, to adorn the three imperial halls in Festsaalbau the residence with frescoes. In contrast to the Imperial frescoes the Nibelungen Halls are obtained.
From 1851 to 1860 he created a series of 240 woodcuts an extensive Bible illustration. These images of the Bible developed an amazing effect that extended far beyond national and confessional boundaries and in Germany coined the Bible piety of generations. Besides Gustave Doré Schnorr is considered the most important Bible illustrator of the 19th century. Although Julius Schnorr was Lutheran and unlike some other Protestant artists never converted to Catholicism, he painted and drew deeply - religious Jesus and Marie representations. His paintings Madonna with the Child of 1820, which is issued at the Wallraf -Richartz Museum in Cologne, is one of the most famous works of this genre from the 19th century.
Many of these religious images were and are released en masse in kitschy Reproduction as devotional images. Man, however, this versatile painter does injustice to denigrate him because of this mass copies as Kitschier.
That he does not fit into this scheme is also demonstrated by the fact that he has left as the only Nazarene artists a whole lot of empathetically drawn nudes.
Museums
A rich collection of images Julius Schnorr von Carol Field, especially many landscape images, as well as a portrait of him drawn by Friedrich Olivier, has the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden. In addition, numerous large-and small -scale paintings in the portfolio of the Belvedere in Vienna.
Book editions
- Julius Schnorr von Carol Field: Gospel in pictures. Edition Temple library. ISBN 978-3-930730-36-0
- Julius Schnorr von Carol Field: The Bible in pictures. 240 illustrations, invented and drawn on wood. 2 Nachdr d ed Leipzig, Wigand, 1860 - Zurich: . Theol. ET, 1989. ISBN 3-290-11488-0