View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German, 1794–1872)
1817
- Medium
- Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Support: 31 x 38.6 x 0.2 cm (12 3/16 x 15 3/16 x 1/16 in.); Image: 15.7 x 23.8 cm (6 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- Germany, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld belonged to the Nazarenes, a group of artists who looked to early Northern Renaissance art for its simplicity and piety. The artist created this drawing during a visit to his native Leipzig en route to join the Nazarenes in Rome. He depicted the city’s distinctive features, including the oldest German language school in Europe (of which he was an alumnus) and a church where Johann Sebastian Bach served as cantor during the 18th century. The artist himself appears in a self-portrait at right in the pair seen at lower left. He juxtaposed loosely sketched landscape with areas of profuse detail, created with a hard and sharpened pencil reinforced with pen and ink.
