Leopold Schulz
Austrian, 1804-1873
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Leopold Schulz was an Austrian painter.
Born the son of a porcelain painter, Leopold Schulz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1817 to 1826. He created several portraits and church pictures for the St. Florian Monastery near Linz from 1826 to 1829.
From March 24, 1829 he studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich with Peter von Cornelius and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Schulz spent the years 1830 and 1831 in Rome and Naples. From 1831 he worked on furnishing the Munich Residence, where he worked with Johann Georg Hiltensperger, Ferdinand Johann von Olivier and others after the drawings by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.
After moving to Vienna, Schulz was appointed curator at the Graeflich Lambergschen Gemäldegalerie at the academy in 1843.
In recognition of his artistic achievements, he was honored with the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order on his retirement in 1872. In 1869 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Papal Order of St. Gregory.