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- lery; Christ on the Cross, Male Portrait,
Bamberg Gallery; Pietà, Darmstadt Museum; Christ on the Cross, Dresden Museum; The Virgin with Infant in Cradle adored by Angels, Gotha Museum; Christus Salvator, Mater Dolorosa, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Madonna Enthroned, St. Jerome, St. Catharine, Artist's Family, Old Pinakothek, Munich; St. Michael overcoming Satan, St. Michael's, ib.; Passion of Christ, and of the Prophets, Church at Ingoldstadt; Christ before Pilate, Christ bearing the Cross (2), Christ on Mount Tabor, Schleissheim Gallery.—Gerstner, Gesch. von Ingoldstadt, 195; Sighart, 707.
SCHWARZ VON ROTHENBURG,
MARTIN, flourished about 1480-1510.
German school; history painter. Works:
Departure of the Apostles, Madonna and
Saints, Bamberg Gallery; Annunciation,
Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, Death of
the Virgin, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg.
SCHWEINFURTH, ERNST, born at
Carlsruhe in 1818, died in Rome in 1877.
Landscape and architecture painter, pupil of
Feodor, the Calmuck (court painter at Carlsruhe
in 1806, died there in 1821), then of
Frommel, and in 1821 of Munich Academy.
Works: View around Bay of Cattaro, Carlsruhe
Gallery; Wooded Shore with Huntsmen
in Boats (1844), Fürstenberg Gallery,
Donaueschingen; View at Cervara near
Rome, Schack Gallery, Munich.
SCHWEISSINGER, (JOHANN FRIEDRICH)
THEODOR, born at Königsberg,
April 7, 1819. History painter, pupil of
Königsberg Art School, then (1847) of Leipsic
Academy under Jäger; travelled in Bavaria,
Tyrol, and Salzburg. Works: St.
Boniface (1854); Charlemagne and Wittikind
(1855); Ulrich von Hutten crowned
Poet (1861). His brother Georg Karl (born
Nov. 14, 1822) is also a history painter.
SCHWEMMINGER, HEINRICH, born
in Vienna in 1803. History painter, pupil
of Vienna Academy. Visited Munich and
in 1837 Rome. Became second custodian
of Vienna Academy Gallery in 1844, and
first custodian in 1861. Works: Finding of
the Veil at Klosternenburg (1841); Ibycus
calling the Cranes to avenge his Death, Vienna
Museum; do. (1869); David thanking
God for his Victory over Goliath (1843);
Parting of Siegfried and Chriemhild (1844);
Chriemhild's Dream, Prophecy of the Mermaids
to Hagen; Madonna (1858); Judith
(1859); Conversion of Wittikind; St. Ferdinand;
Five frescoes for the Chapel of the
Vienna Insane Asylum.—Wurzbach, xxxii.
365.
SCHWEMMINGER, JOSEF, born in
Vienna in 1804. Landscape painter, brother
of preceding, with whom simultaneously pupil
of Vienna Academy; travelled in the Austrian
provinces and Bavaria, whence most
of his subjects are taken, and visited Italy.
Works: Views on the Danube, in Styria,
Tyrol, Bavaria, etc. (1832-71); Lago di
Garda (1844); Sunrise over the Marchfeld,
Vintage near Vienna, View of Brünn, do. of
Witkowitz-Moravia, do. of Troppau, do. in
Silesia, do. of Cracow, Hunt in Galicia
(1868), Court Saloon of Northern Railway
Station, Vienna.—Wurzbach, xxxii. 367.
SCHWERDGEBURTH, OTTO, born in
Weimar, March 5, 1835, died there, Dec.
16, 1866. History painter, son of and first
instructed by the engraver Karl August
Schwerdgeburth, then pupil of Friedrich
Preller and (1856) of Antwerp Academy;
assisted Guffens and Swerts on the frescos
in the Bourse and St. Nicholas's Church
there, and in 1860 returned to Weimar.
Works: Thomas Münzer a Prisoner before
the Princes in Frankenhausen; Hathburg—First
Wife of Henry the Fowler; Young
Goldsmith's Masterpiece; Salzburg Protestants'
Last Look upon Home, Bremen Gallery;
Easter Promenaders from Goethe's
Faust, Cologne Museum.—Kunst-Chronik,
ii. 45.
SCHWIND, MORITZ VON, Ritter, born
in Vienna, Jan. 21, 1804, died in Munich,
Feb. 8, 1871. History painter, pupil in Vienna
of Ludwig Schnorr and of the Acad-