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MORITZ VON SCHWIND (1804-1871)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 395 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORITZ VON See also:SCHWIND (1804-1871)  , See also:German painter, was See also:born in See also:Vienna in 1804 . He received rudimentary training and led a joyous careless See also:life in that See also:gay See also:capital; among his companions was the composer See also:Schubert, whose songs he illustrated . In 1828 he removed to See also:Munich, and had the See also:advantage of the friendship of the painter Schnorr and the guidance of See also:Cornelius, then director of the See also:academy . In 1834 he received the See also:commission to decorate See also:King See also:Ludwig's new See also:palace with See also:wall paintings illustrative of the poet See also:Tieck . He also found in the same See also:place congenial See also:sport for his See also:fancy in a " Kinderfries "; his ready See also:hand was likewise busy on almanacs, &c., and by his illustrations to See also:Goethe and other writers he gained See also:applause and much employment . In the revival of See also:art in See also:Germany See also:Schwind held as his own the See also:sphere of poetic fancy . To him was entrusted in 1839, in the new Carisruhe academy, the embodiment in See also:fresco of ideas thrown out by Goethe; he decorated a See also:villa at See also:Leipzig with the See also:story of See also:Cupid and See also:Psyche, and further justified his See also:title of poet-painter by designs from the Niebelungenlied and See also:Tasso's Gerusalemme for the walls of the See also:castle of Hohenschwangau in Bavarian See also:Tirol . From the See also:year 1844 See also:dates his See also:residence in See also:Frankfort; to this See also:period belong some of the best easel pictures, pre-eminently the Singers' Contest in the See also:Wartburg (1846), also designs for the Goethe celebration, likewise numerous See also:book illustrations . The conceptions for the most See also:part are better than the See also:execution . In 1847 Schwind returned to Munich on being appointed See also:professor in the academy . Eight years later his fame was at its height on the completion in the castle of the Wartburg of wall pictures illustrative of the Singers' Contest and of the See also:history of See also:Elizabeth of See also:Hungary . The compositions received universal praise, and at a See also:grand musical festival in their See also:honour Schwind himself played among the violins .

In 1857 appeared his exceptionally mature "cyclus " of the Seven Ravens from See also:

Grimm's See also:fairy stories . In the same year he visited See also:England to See also:report officially to King Ludwig on the See also:Manchester art treasures . And so diversified were his gifts that he turned his hand' to See also:church windows and joined his old friend Schnorr in designs for the painted See also:glass in See also:Glasgow See also:cathedral . Towards the See also:close of his career, with broken See also:health and See also:powers on the wane, he revisited Vienna . To this See also:time belong the " cyclus " from the See also:legend of Melusine and the designs commemorative of See also:chief musicians which decorate the foyer of the new See also:opera See also:house . Cornelius writes, " You have here translated the joyousness of See also:music into pictorial art." Schwind's See also:genius was lyrical; he See also:drew See also:inspiration from See also:chivalry, folk-See also:lore, and the songs of the See also:people; his art was decorative, but lacked scholastic training and technical skill . Schwind died at Munich in 1871, and was buried in the old Friedhof of the same See also:town .

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