Philipp Veit

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name = Philipp Veit


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birth_date = February 13, 1793
birth_place = Berlin
death_date = December 18, 1877
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Philipp Veit (13 February 1793 – 18 December 1877) was a German Romantic painter. To Veit is due the credit of having been the first to revive the almost forgotten technique of fresco painting.

Veit was born in Berlin, Prussia. He was the son of Simon Veit and his wife Dorothea, daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, who subsequently left him to marry Friedrich Schlegel. Veit received his first art education in Dresden and Vienna. He was strongly influenced by, and joined, the Nazarene movement in Rome, where he worked for some years before moving to Frankfurt.

In Frankfurt, where his most important works are preserved at the Städel, he was active from 1830 to 1843 as director of the art collections and as professor of painting. From 1853 till his death in 1877 he held the post of director of the municipal gallery at Mainz. Like his fellow Nazarenes he was more draughtsman than painter, and though his sense of colour was stronger than that of Overbeck or Cornelius, his works are generally more of the nature of coloured cartoons than of paintings in the modern sense.

Veit's principal work is the large fresco of "The Introduction of Christianity into Germany by St Boniface", at the Städel. In the Frankfurt Cathedral is his "Assumption", while the Alte Nationalgalerie of Berlin has his painting of "The Two Marys at the Sepulchre". An example of his romantic work is "Germania", a national personification of Germany, located in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg.

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NAME=Veit, Philipp
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=German Romantic painter
DATE OF BIRTH=February 13, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH=Berlin
DATE OF DEATH=December 18, 1877
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