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View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig

Julius Schnorr von CarolsfeldLinkedCulture matchlcp-4b32c8df2357

Date: 1817
Medium: Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper
Culture: Germany, 19th century
Department: Drawings
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 453030

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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld belonged to the Nazarenes, a group of artists who looked to early Northern Renaissance art for its simplicity and piety. The artist created this drawing during a visit to his native Leipzig en route to join the Nazarenes in Rome. He depicted the city’s distinctive features, including the oldest German language school in Europe (of which he was an alumnus) and a church where Johann Sebastian Bach served as cantor during the 18th century. The artist himself appears in a self-portrait at right in the pair seen at lower left. He juxtaposed loosely sketched landscape with areas of profuse detail, created with a hard and sharpened pencil reinforced with pen and ink. The landscape in this drawing is seen from the perspective of Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s family home in Leipzig.

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Credit line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance: Eduard Cichorius [1819–1907], Dresden, Germany | Professor Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld [1877–1945], Berlin, the artist’s grandson | ?-1945: Carl Heumann [1886–1945], Chemnitz, Germany | 1945–57: Carl Heumann Estate | November 29, 1957: (Carl Heumann posthumous collection sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, no. 320, sold to Erhard Göpel), 1957 | 1957–66: Erhard Göpel [1906–1966], Munich, Germany | 1966-?: By descent to his wife, Barbara Göpel [1922–2017], Munich, Germany | 1994-2019: Private Collection, Germany | 2019–22: (Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandels, Munich, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH,

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