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Johannes Veit, originally Jonas Veit (2 March 1790,
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Johannes Veit, originally Jonas Veit (2 March 1790, Berlin
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- 18 January 1854, Rome
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) was a German history painter. After 1811, he lived and worked in Rome, where he was a member of the Nazarene movement
The epithet Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art. The name Nazarene came from a term of derision used against them for their affectation of a biblical manner of c ...
. "Johannes Veit"from ''
Bénézit
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'', @ Oxford Art Online
Life and work
He was born to the banker,Simon Veit
Simon Veit (25 May 1754, Brandenburg? - 1 October 1819, Berlin?) was a German merchant and banker of Jewish ancestry.
Life and work
His father, Juda Veit (1710–1786), was a wool merchant and founder of a bank. At Simon was several brothes an ...
, and his wife Brendel; daughter of the philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the ''Haskalah'', or 'J ...
. After his parents divorced, in 1799, he stayed in Berlin with his father. In 1805, he went to Hamburg
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and began an apprenticeship at Mendelssohn & Co., a private banking firm owned by his uncles, Joseph
Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic count ...
and Abraham Mendelssohn
Abraham Ernst Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born Abraham Mendelssohn; 10 December 1776 – 19 November 1835) was a German Jewish banker and philanthropist. He was the father of Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Rebecka Mendelssohn, and Paul Mendel ...
. Three years later, inspired by his brother Philipp
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"Philipp" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews.
Surname
* Adolf Philipp (18 ...
, he decided to take up art instead, and enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German language, German ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institutio ...
, where he studied with Friedrich Matthäi
Johann Friedrich Matthäi (3 March 1777, Meissen - 23 October 1845, Vienna) was a German portrait and history painter.Ent ...
.
In 1810, he and Philipp converted to Catholicism
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, as their mother had, two years before. It was then, at his baptism, that he took the name "Johannes". The following year, after a brief period working in Vienna, he moved to Rome, although he had originally planned to go to Paris. The occasion for his change of mind was his interest in the works of Gottlieb Schick, who was then living in Rome, and in poor health. Following Schick's return to Stuttgart, he befriended Friedrich Overbeck
Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene art movement.
Early life and education
Overbeck was born in Lübeck in 1789. His family had been Protestant pastors for three genera ...
, and became involved in the Nazarene movement.
He was a slow, painstaking worker, who made very heavy demands on himself. As a result, his output was rather small. One of his most familiar works is an early " Adoration of the Shepherds", at St. Hedwig's Cathedral
St. Hedwig's Cathedral () is the Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Berlin on Bebelplatz in the historic centre of Berlin. Dedicated to Hedwig of Silesia, it was erected from 1747 to 1773 by order of Frederick the Great according to pla ...
in Berlin.
References
Further reading
*Salomon Wininger
Salomon Wininger (; 13 December 1877, Gura Humora, Bukovina – December 1968, in Ramat Gan, Israel) was an Austrian-Jewish biographer. He has been called one of the greatest Jewish biographers of all time.
Before World War I, Wininger lived in ...
: ''Große Jüdische National-Biographie'' ("Lexicon of Jewish National Biographies"). Chernivtsi 1925–1936, Vol.VI, pg.178
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