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Amsterdam Academy. Works: Sunset on Bay of Baiæ (1804), Museum, Vienna; Snow Mountains over an Alpine Lake, Waterfall, Czernin Gallery, ib.; Waterfall of Terni, Joanneum, Gratz; Four Periods of the Day, Vienna; Sunset (1810), do. by the Sea (1817), Lonely Lake, Waterfall at Noon, Moonlight Night by the Sea (1812), View of Florence at Sunset, do. by Moonlight, Darmstadt Museum; Falls of the Rhine near Schaffhausen, Schleissheim Gallery.—Wurzbach, xxxi. 128.


SCHÖNBRUNNER, KARL, born in Vienna, Oct. 4, 1832, died at Hirschstetten, near Vienna, Feb. 21, 1877. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, of Rahl, and of Führich; copied afterwards in Italy the old masters, especially Giorgione and Titian; lived in Rome in 1862-72 and returned to Vienna. Works: Godfrey of Bouillon laying down his Arms at Holy Sepulchre (1852); Bishop Ambrose and Emperor Theodosius (1859); St. Augustine and the Boy (1864); Tasso's Leonora (1867); Life and Art (1870).—Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 546; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 789; Wurzbach, xxxi. 142.


SCHÖNFELD, HEINRICH, born in Dresden in 1809, died in Munich in 1845. Architecture painter, pupil of Dresden Academy. First painted theatre decorations; went to Munich in 1830, devoted himself to architecture painting, and travelled for sketches in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Holland. Mediæval German buildings were his favourite subjects. Works: Old Butcher's Quay in Strasburg (1840), New Pinakothek, Munich; Market-Place of Basle (1839); Cathedrals of Bacharach, Limburg, and Erfurt.—Nagler, xv. 471.


SCHÖNFELDT, JOHANN HEINRICH, born at Biberach, March 23, 1609, died in Augsburg about 1680 (1695?). German school. History and landscape painter, pupil of Johann Sichelbein, afterwards studied in Rome, and after his return worked at Lyons, Munich, Bamberg, Salzburg, Vienna. Works: Assumption, Augsburg Cathedral; Crucifixion, Würzburg Cathedral; Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau, replica, and Gideon watering his Flocks, Sacrifice of Minerva, Vienna Museum; Shepherd's Festival, Battle of the Giants, Two Musical Parties, Dresden Gallery; Last Judgment, Brunswick Gallery; Seleucus and Antiochus, Oldenburg Gallery; Sacrifice to Diana, Schleissheim Gallery.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 528; Nagler, xv. 469.




SCHONGAUER, MARTIN, commonly called Hipsch Martin or Martin Schön, born at Colmar about 1446, died there, Feb. 2, 1488. German school. History and portrait painter, probably pupil of Rogier van der Weyden in Flanders. Was the greatest German painter and engraver of the 15th century. Works: Madonna of the Rose Hedge (1473), St. Martin's, Colmar; two Altar-Wings with Annunciation, Museum, ib. (the 16 panels in the Museum attributed to him are probably by his scholars); Nativity, Old Pinakothek, Munich; do., Vienna Museum. None of the works in the Louvre, Madrid, and Brussels Museums, and in the National Gallery and South Kensington Museum, London, are authenticated.—Academy (1880), ii. 335; Allgem. Zeitg. (1880), Nos. 129, 156; L'Art (1881), iii. 272; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Dohme 1ii.; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iii. 257, 321; (1881), xxiii. 95; Heideloff, K. des Mittelalt. in Schwaben, 117; Jahrb. der köngl. preuss. Kunstsammlg., iv. 131; Kugler (Crowe), i. 134; D. Lit. Zeitg. (1881), 20; Ménard, L'Art en Alsace-Lorraine, 72; Repert. f. K., vii. 31, 167; Schnaase, viii. 391; Woltmann,