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PHILIPP VEIT (1793-1877)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 973 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VEIT (1793-1877)  , See also:German painter, one of the leaders of the German romantic school, was See also:born in See also:Berlin . Having received his first See also:art See also:education in See also:Dresden and See also:Vienna, he was strongly influenced by, and joined the See also:group of, the See also:Nazarenes in See also:Rome, where he worked for some years before taking up his See also:abode in See also:Frankfort . In this See also:city, where his most important See also:works are preserved at the Staedel See also:Institute, he was active from 183o to 1843, as director of the art collections and as See also:professor of See also:painting . From 1853 to his See also:death in 1877 he held the See also:post of director of the municipal See also:gallery at Mayence . Like his See also:fellow-Nazarenes he was more draughtsman than painter, and though his sense of See also:colour was stronger than that of Over-See also:beck or See also:Cornelius, his works are generally more of the nature of coloured cartoons than of paintings in the See also:modern sense . His See also:principal See also:work is the large See also:fresco of "The Introduction of See also:Christianity into See also:Germany by St See also:Boniface," at the Staedel Institute in Frankfort . In the See also:cathedral of that city is his " See also:Assumption," whilst the Berlin See also:National Gallery has his painting of " The Two Marys at the See also:Sepulchre." To See also:Veit is due the See also:credit of having been the first to revive the almost forgotten technique of fresco painting . See Kunst, Kiinstler and Kunstwerke, by Valentin Veit .

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