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Cornelius; decorated in 1832-34 a room in the Königsbau with encaustic pictures, in 1834-35 painted sixty compositions in water-colours for Castle Hohenschwangau, visited Rome in 1835, lived in Carlsruhe in 1840-44, in Frankfort in 1844-47, and became professor at the Munich Academy in 1847; painted the frescos in the Wartburg in 1854-55, and those in the Vienna Opera House in 1864-67. One of the most eminent painters of modern times, and the most gifted representative of German romanticism. Member of Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and other Academies. Bavarian, Prussian, Saxon, and Greek Orders; knighted in Austria in 1855. Works in oil: The Arts in the Service of the Madonna; Triptych, Frauenkirche, Munich; Rübezahl, Morning Hour, Wedding Journey, Crusader's Return, Knight and Hermit, Danube and Tributaries, Prisoner's Dream, Wiland the Smith, Hero and Leander, Erl-King, and twenty-five others, Schack Gallery, ib.; Cycle of Pictures of Travel (19); Rhine and Tributaries, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; The Rose (1847), National Gallery, ib.; The Elbe; Knight Kurt's Wooing (1839), Carlsruhe Gallery; Knight Falkenstein's Ride, Leipsic Museum; Artist's Pilgrimage; Rudolf von Hapsburg's Ride to Speyer, Kiel Gallery; Dance of Elves (1845), Minstrels' Contest at the Wartburg (1846), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; A Symphony (1852), New Pinakothek, Munich; St. Elizabeth's Glove (1856), Weimar Museum; Cinderella (3). Water-colours: Sketches for Cycle at Hohenschwangau (60); Legend of the Seven Ravens (14, 1857), Weimar Museum; Legend of Melusine (11), Vienna Museum; Story of Cinderella (6, 1851-54); A Queer Saint; St. Wolfgang and the Devil, Emperor Max on the Martin Wall, Vienna Academy. In fresco: Subjects from Tieck's Works (1833-34, partly encaustic), Scenes in Life of Rudolf von Hapsburg, Royal Palace, Munich; Myth of Cupid and Psyche (1837), Castle Rüdigsdorf, near Leipsic; Mythological Cycle (1839), Kunsthalle, Carlsruhe; Allegorical Figures (1839), Assembly Room of the Estates, ib.; Life of St. Elizabeth (6), Cycle (6) from History of Thuringia (1854-56), Wartburg, Eisenach (sketches to these in Weimar Museum); Paintings in church at Reichenhall (1863); Two Cycles from German Operas (1866), Opera House, Vienna.—Brockhaus, xiv. 614; Förster, v. 132; Führich, M. v. Sch. (Leipsic, 1871); Holland, do. (Stuttgart, 1873); Müller, do. (Eisenach, 1873); Illustr. Zeitg. (1873), i. 83; ii. 451; (1874), ii. 447; Jordan (1885), ii. 215; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 78; Graph. K., i. 9, 49, 77; Nord und Süd, iii. 353; xiv. 23; xv. 357; Pecht, i. 195; Reber, ii. 83; Regnet, ii. 215; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 42; Springer, Gesch., 144; Wurzbach, xxxiii. 127; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 90; v. 129; vi. 253; vii. 29, 75, 97, 103; viii. 257; xi. 11.

SCHWINGEN, PETER, born at Muffendorf in 1815. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy in 1832-45. Paints scenes of common life with much truth and a touch of satire. Works: St. Martin's Day among the Children of Düsseldorf (1837); Feast after drawing the Prize (1845); Shooting at Birds for a Pig (1844); Rich Uncle's Visit (1845); Subhastation (1846); Expectation, Duty on Bread (1847); The Distress is over (1848); Dentist (1849); Warrior's Return (1851); New Wine (1852).—Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 301; Wiegmann, 333.

SCHWOISER, EDUARD, born at Brüsau, Moravia, in 1827. Genre and history painter, self-taught. In 1857 changed from genre to history, and later took up monumental painting. Works: Mother Convalescent (1856); Albrecht von Hapsburg blessing his Son before Departure for Pales-