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Philipp Veit
Philipp Veit

Philipp Veit

German, 1793-1877
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Philipp Veit was a German Romantic painter. It is to Veit that the credit of having been the first to revive the nearly forgotten technique of fresco painting is due.

Veit was born in Berlin, Prussia. He was the son of a banker Simon Veit and his wife Dorothea, daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, who subsequently left him to marry Friedrich Schlegel. Veit received his first art education in Dresden, where he was taught by Caspar David Friedrich, and Vienna. Although a prodigious talent when it came to drawing, Veit was not comfortable with oil painting, for which reason in Vienna he took to the medium of watercolour. In Vienna, he made the acquaintance of Schlegel, and through him came to know several Viennese Romantics, one of whom was the poet and novelist Joseph von Eichendorff. He was strongly influenced by, and joined, the Nazarene movement in Rome, where he worked for some years before moving to Frankfurt.

Veit participated in the struggle against Napoleon in 1813–14, returning to Berlin for a short period. In 1815, he finished the Virgin with Christ and St John, a votive painting for the church of St James in Heiligenstadt, Vienna. The painting was inspired by the style of Pietro Perugino and Raphael.

In Frankfurt, where his most important works are preserved at the Städel, he was active from 1830 to 1843 as director of the art collections and as professor of painting. From 1853 till his death in 1877 he held the post of director of the municipal gallery in Mainz. Like his fellow Nazarenes he was more draughtsman than painter, and though his sense of colour was stronger than that of Overbeck or Cornelius, his works are generally more of the nature of coloured cartoons than of paintings in the modern sense.

Veit's principal work is the large fresco of The Introduction of Christianity into Germany by St Boniface, at the Städel. In the Frankfurt Cathedral is his Assumption, while the Alte Nationalgalerie of Berlin has his painting of The Two Marys at the Sepulchre. An example of his romantic work is Germania, a national personification of Germany, located in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut.

Veit died in Mainz.

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Rest During the Flight into Egypt

Rest During the Flight into Egypt (1800–1877)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Die sieben fetten Jahre – Karton für das Fresko in der Casa Bartholdy

Die sieben fetten Jahre – Karton für das Fresko in der Casa Bartholdy (1816)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Allegory of poetry

Allegory of poetry

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Christus und Magdalena (Ostermorgen)

Christus und Magdalena (Ostermorgen)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Dante mit florentinischen Künstlern

Dante mit florentinischen Künstlern

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Der Heilige Sebastian wird gefesselt 2

Der Heilige Sebastian wird gefesselt 2

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Der Heilige Sebastian wird gefesselt

Der Heilige Sebastian wird gefesselt

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Der rechte Fuß der allegorischen Gestalt der Religion

Der rechte Fuß der allegorischen Gestalt der Religion (ca 1834)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Die Heilige Familie, Joseph lesend

Die Heilige Familie, Joseph lesend

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Die rechte Hand der Mutter in den ‘Sieben fetten Jahren’

Die rechte Hand der Mutter in den ‘Sieben fetten Jahren’ (1816)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten

Die Ruhe auf der Flucht nach Ägypten (ca 1840-1847)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Akt-, Gewand- und Haltungsstudie

Akt-, Gewand- und Haltungsstudie

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Die Städelsche Administration vor Lessings Hussitenpredigt

Die Städelsche Administration vor Lessings Hussitenpredigt

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Erster Entwurf zu den ‘Sieben fetten Jahren’ für die Casa Bartholdy in Rom

Erster Entwurf zu den ‘Sieben fetten Jahren’ für die Casa Bartholdy in Rom (1816)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Four clergymen

Four clergymen

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Frederick the Great

Frederick the Great (ca 1840)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Germania’s head

Germania’s head (ca 1832-1833)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Halbfigur eines Knaben im Profil nach links

Halbfigur eines Knaben im Profil nach links

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Head of John the Baptist

Head of John the Baptist (ca. 1833 – 1835)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Johannes der Täufer als Halbfigur mit dem Unterarm Christi

Johannes der Täufer als Halbfigur mit dem Unterarm Christi (1835)

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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Kommt nun, ihr vom Hause Jakob, lasst uns wandeln im Licht des Herrn

Kommt nun, ihr vom Hause Jakob, lasst uns wandeln im Licht des Herrn

Philipp Veit (German, 1793-1877)
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