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accession number:	2022.1
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View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, 1817. Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German, 1794–1872). Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper; sheet: 15.7 x 23.8 cm (6 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2022.1

title:				View across the Moat towards the Thomasschule and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig
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creation date:			1817
creation date earliest:		1817
creation date latest:		1817
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Germany, 19th century
technique:	Pen and black ink and graphite on ivory wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - German
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German, 1794–1872)  - artist
German painter, 1794-1872
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measurements: Sheet: 15.7 x 23.8 cm (6 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Inscribed and dated at lower left: Leipzig 1817 M. July
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	inscription:	stamped at lower right on verso in blue ink: mark of Carl Heumann collection (Lugt 2841a)
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	inscription:	watermark: H * O S E R [unidentified]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Deutsche Landscaftskunst, 1750–1850: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Sammlung Heumann, Chemnitz</em>. Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste, Breslau, Poland (1933).

* <em>Zeichenkunst der deutschen Romantik</em>. Nassauisches Landesmusuem, Wiesbaden, Germany (May–mid-July 1937)

* <em>Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1794–1872</em>. Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (March 26–May 23, 1994); Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (June 5–July 31, 1994).

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PROVENANCE

	Eduard Cichorius [1819–1907], Dresden, Germany
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	Professor Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld [1877–1945], Berlin, the artist’s grandson
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	Carl Heumann [1886–1945], Chemnitz, Germany
	date: ?-1945
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	Carl Heumann Estate
	date: 1945–57
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	(Carl Heumann posthumous collection sale, Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, no. 320, sold to Erhard Göpel), 1957
	date: November 29, 1957
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	Erhard Göpel [1906–1966], Munich, Germany
	date: 1957–66
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	By descent to his wife, Barbara Göpel [1922–2017], Munich, Germany
	date: 1966-?
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	Private Collection, Germany
	date: 1994-2019
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	(Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandels, Munich, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2019–22
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH,
	date: 2022-
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fun fact:
The landscape in this drawing is seen from the perspective of Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s family home in Leipzig.

digital description:
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.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Deutsche Landscaftskunst, 1750–1850: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Sammlung Heumann, Chemnitz</em>. Exh. Cat. Breslau: Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste, 1933.
	page number: 	Mentioned no. 135
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	<em>Zeichenkunst der deutschen Romantik</em>. Exh. Cat. Wiesbaden: Nassauisches Landesmusuem, 1937.
	page number: 	Mentioned: 30, no. 282
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	Göpel, Erhard. “Deutsche Künstler zeichnen in Leipzig.” <em>Leipziger Jahrbuch </em>14 (1939).
	page number: 	Mentioned p. 134–36
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	<em>Kunst des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts: Sammlung Heumann, Chemnitz</em>. Stuttgart: Stuttgarter Kunstkabinetts, 1957.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 66, no. 320; Reproduced: pl. 18
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	Göpel, Erhard. “Eine unbekannte Ansicht Leipzigs” <em>Neue Lepipziger Zeitung</em> 249, no. 6 (September 6, 1933).
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	Mehnert, Karl Hein. “Eine wiederentdeckte Stadtansicht: Zur Ausstellung Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld im Museum der bildenden Künste.” <em>Leipziger Blatter</em> 27 (Spring 1994).
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 74; Mentioned: p. 75.
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	<em>Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1794–1872</em>. Exh. Cat. Leipzig: Museum der Bildenden Künste, 1994.
	page number: 	Mentioned: 197–98, no. 27; Reproduced: p. 97
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