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German portraitist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Veit Hanns Friedrich Schnorr von Carolsfeld (11 May 1764 – 30 April 1841) was a German portraitist.
Schnorr was born in Schneeberg. He was a friend of the poet Johann Gottfried Seume, whom he set out to accompany in 1801 on a journey to Syracuse, Sicily, but separated from him after travelling no further than Vienna.[1]
In 1803 he returned to Leipzig and became an assistant teacher at the Leipzig Academy of Art.[2] In 1814, after the death of Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, 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.[3]
Two of his sons also became prominent painters:
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