Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld

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Portrait of Wallenstein , 1823
Rudolf von Habsburg and the priest , 1828, Belvedere , Vienna
The three Marys at the tomb of Jesus, around 1835
The broad pine next to the Brühl near Mödling , 1838, Belvedere , Vienna
View from the church in Annaberg to the Ötscher , 1842

Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld (born October 11, 1788 in Königsberg , † April 13, 1853 in Vienna ) was a painter , etcher and lithographer of the German Romantic era .

Life

Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld was the son and student of the painter Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld , who in 1801 accompanied Johann Gottfried Seume on his “walk to Syracuse” to Vienna. His younger brother was the painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872); his nephew was the opera singer Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1836-1865).

In 1804 Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld was accepted as a student at the Imperial and Royal Vienna Art Academy under Heinrich Friedrich Füger , whom his father had met in 1801. He joined a group of academy students around Friedrich Overbeck who were looking for new ways beyond the strictly formal, classicist ideals of the academy. The endeavors of these young artists ultimately led to a new art direction, the Nazarene art . In contrast to Overbeck and others, however, Schnorr von Carolsfeld avoided the final break with the academy, did not join the Lukasbund founded by the other artists , and stayed in Vienna. His sponsor was initially Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen . Schnorr von Carolsfeld cultivated close relationships with the Catholic romantics Zacharias Werner and Friedrich von Schlegel . Together with Schlegel, Schnorr von Carolsfeld also worked as a magnetizer. These practical experiences were also reflected in his art.

Around 1808 he belonged to the circle of friends of the musician Therese Malfatti and her family and drew portraits of Ludwig van Beethoven and his friend Ignaz von Gleichenstein .

On September 23, 1812, he married Karoline von Jankwitz, who was born in Silesia, in Vienna. In 1818, Schnorr von Carolsfeld's application for the position of director of the Vienna Academy failed due to the resistance of Prince Metternich , the curator of the Academy, whom Schnorr von Carolsfeld was suspicious of because of his artistic and personal closeness to the Lukas Brothers. However, he got a job with Archduke Johann and designed his country estate Brandhof artistically in the years up to 1828. In 1821 he became Moritz von Schwind's teacher . In the same year he converted to the Roman Catholic Church .

Schnorr von Carolsfeld made study trips to southern Germany, Switzerland and Paris (1834), and to northern Germany (1837). Through the support of the Archduke he came into contact with the imperial family and received commissions from there. In 1835, thanks to the Archduke's intercession and thanks to the fact that romantic art began to gain acceptance all over Germany, he was still a member of the Vienna Academy. From 1841 he was curator of the Imperial and Royal Picture Gallery in the Belvedere .

In 1937, Schnorrgasse in Vienna- Floridsdorf (21st district) was named after him and his brother Julius Schnorr.

His grave is in the grave grove of the Favoritner Waldmüllerpark .

Works (selection)

In his first years Schnorr von Carolsfeld mainly painted religious works. From 1820 he created numerous landscape and historical pictures and portraits of the imperial family. His painting Fall from the Rock , painted in 1833 , in which a tightly clutched couple chose to fall into the deadly abyss as their last escape from their captors, is considered the epitome of romantic death eroticism.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchberger, Nico .: Show (play) of the occult: the meaning of mesmerism and hypnotism for the visual arts in the 19th century . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07328-9 .
  2. ↑ Cf. The Friends of the Malfatti Family in Vienna, drawn by Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld , ed. by Sieghard Brandenburg , Bonn 1985
  3. ^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher: * Das Heeresgeschichtliche Museum in Wien , Verlag Styria , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-222-12834-0 , p. 8.
  4. ↑ Waltraud Maierhofer: The title vignettes and copper by Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld for two Goethe work editions. In: Journal for German Studies . tape XXVI , 2016, p. 18-39 .

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SURNAME Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Ludwig Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1853
Place of death Vienna