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MORITZ VON SCHWIND

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Born at Vienna, 1804; died at Munich, 1871. A painter possessing an
inexhaustible wealth of ideas, specially gifted for incisive individualization,
and perfectly familiar with the entire range of tones and the power of
expression by mien, movement, pose, and costume, he was one of the ornaments of
the Munich school of art. He was above all a draughtsman and painter of small
details, understanding how to make small pictures harmonious both in colour and
composition. He was by nature inclined to the Romantic school of thought and
feeling and this tendency, much developed in the studio of Ludwig Schnorr von
Caroldfeld, was still more so by his Catholic education. After a journey to
Rome, the painting of frescoes at Carlsruhe, and a short stay at Frankfort, he
came in 1847 to Munich where Cornelius gained great influence over him. The
spirit of his art is that of the minnesingers, of Eichendorff, and of Bretano.
The material upon which he worked was nature and life, especially child-life,
lyrically and poetically conceived, drawing and painting in water-colours being
the mediums in which he best expressed his thoughts. Among his fellow artists
Richter and Steinle stand probably in the closest relation to him. He set a high
value on religious painting, and though he thought it less suited to his
talents, he did not neglect it altogether. In the castle on the Wartburg he
painted fine frescoes of the works of mercy and the life of St. Elizabeth, which
recall the early Renaissance; he also painted there the history of the
Thuringian rulers and the Sängerkrieg. The work for the altar of the Church of
Our Lady at Munich is splendid in tone and the coloured cartoons for painted
windows which were executed at Oxford and London are also greatly esteemed. At
Carlsruhe he adorned the academy of art with entertaining frescoes
characterizing art. The easel-picture "Ritter Kurts's Search for a Wife" had
gained the commission for him, for the delightful humor of his popular creations
is not spoiled by flippancy. Other excellent easel pictures are in the Schack
gallery at Munich. In his oil-paintings, however, the harmonious combination of
the parts with the whole and of the colour with the drawing are often lacking.
In the frescoes the professional water-colour painter is evident. As a
water-colour painter he attained his greatest triumphs in the cyclus of the
Seven Ravens, and in that of the legend of Melusine.


SOURCES

WEIGMANN, Klassiker der Kunst (1906); Schwindalbum (Munich, 1880); Schwindmappe
zum Kunstwart (1902-04); SCHWIND, Lukas von Fuhrich (Leipzig, 1871); HAACK,
Moritz von Schwind (Leipzig, 1898); MUTHER, Geschichte der Malerei im XIX.
Jahrh., I (Munich, 1893).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Gietmann, G. (1912). Moritz von Schwind. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13598a.htm

MLA citation. Gietmann, Gerhard. "Moritz von Schwind." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13598a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Joseph E.
O'Connor.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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