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SCHWAIGER, HANS, born at Neuhaus, Bohemia, in 1854. Genre painter, pupil of Vienna Academy and of Trenkwald; paints in water-colours fairy and fantastic scenes with a burlesque humour. Works: Cycle of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; do. of Pied Piper of Hameln; The Water Sprite (1880).—Zeitschr. f. b. K, xvi. 236.
SCHWALBE, OREST. See Kiprenski.
SCHWARTZ, ALBERT GUSTAV, born
in Berlin, July 6, 1833. Genre painter, pupil
of Berlin Academy under Max Schmidt
in landscape painting; after a year and a half
in Rome, went over to genre under Anton
von Werner. Gold medal. Works: Broken
Flowers (1874); Gypsy Woman (1875);
Sweet Fruits, Slumber Song (1876).—Müller,
483.
SCHWARTZ, FRANS, born in Copenhagen,
July 19, 1850. History
and genre painter,
pupil of Copenhagen
Academy; won the gold
medal with his first picture;
having travelled before
in foreign parts, visited
in 1878 Germany,
Holland, Paris, North
Italy, and Spain. Works:
Job and his Friends; In a Sick Room (1875);
Christ healing the Sick (1876); Death of
Jacob (1878).—Sigurd Müller, 309.
SCHWARTZ, MARTIN, latter part of
15th century. German school. He was a
Dominican monk in Rothenburg, and painted
in the manner of Zeitblom. Some of
his pictures have been attributed to Schongauer.
Works: Small altarpiece with Christ
Crucified, etc., St. Sebastian pierced with
Arrows, Vienna Museum (both ascribed to
Schongauer); four Altar-Wings with Annunciation,
Nativity, Adoration of the Magi,
Death of Mary, St. Maurice's Chapel, Nuremberg;
Christ Crucified and Saints, Parish
Church, Schwabach, near ib.—Nagler, Mon.,
iv. 675; Schnaase, viii. 432.
SCHWARTZ, WENCESLAUS, born in
Kursk, Russia, in 1838. Genre painter,
pupil of St. Petersburg Academy and of
A. Lefèvre in Paris. Member of St. Petersburg
Academy in 1865. Works: Conference
of Foreign Ambassadors with Russian
Boyars; Muscovite Ambassador to a
Foreign Court; A Strelitz; Czar's Pilgrimage.—Müller,
483.
SCHWARTZE, JOHAN GEORG, born
at Amsterdam, Oct. 20, 1814, died there,
Aug. 27, 1874. Historical, genre, and portrait
painter, pupil of Leutze in Philadelphia,
whither he went with his parents early
in life, then studied at the Düsseldorf Academy
in 1838-44 under Schadow, Sohn, and
Lessing; took Rembrandt for his ideal.
Member of Amsterdam Academy in 1844.
Great gold medal, Amsterdam, 1860.
Works: Woman in Prayer, Amsterdam
Museum; Columbus before the Junta at
Salamanca; Michelangelo by the Body of
Vittoria Colonna (1854); Waiting, First
Divine Service of the Puritans in America
(1858).—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1848); D.
Kunstbl., 1851, 1858; Meyer, Conv. Lex.,
xvii. 795.
SCHWARTZE, THERESE, born at Amsterdam,
Dec. 20, 1852. Genre painter,
daughter and pupil of preceding, and pupil
of Gabriel Max. Works: Girl's Head
(1873), He is coming! (1882), Three Orphans
of Amsterdam (1885), Amsterdam
Museum.
SCHWARZ, CHRISTOPH, born near
Ingoldstadt in 1550 (?), died in Munich
about 1597. German school; history and
portrait painter, pupil in Munich of Melchior
Bocksberger; formed himself chiefly
in Venice after Titian and Tintoretto, and
after his return became court painter to
Duke William I. of Bavaria. He painted
many altarpieces for churches in Munich,
Augsburg, Landshut, Ingoldstadt, and other
places, which are marked by good composition
and vigorous colouring, but the heads
are mostly without expression. He also
showed considerable skill in decorating in
fresco many houses in Munich. Works:
Descent from the Cross, Aschaffenburg Gal-