Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Ludwig Ferdinand Schnorr von Carolsfeld (11 October 1788 – 13 April 1853) was a German Romantic painter, engraver and lithographer.

In 1804 he was registered as a student in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Heinrich Friedrich Füger, who had become acquainted with his father in 1801.

Unlike Overbeck and others, however, Schnorr von Carolsfeld avoided a complete break with the Academy, did not join the Lukasbund (a group founded by the other Nazarene artists), and remained in Vienna.

In 1835, thanks again to the Archduke, and also thanks to the fact that Romantic painting was beginning to become popular throughout Germany, he became after all a member of the Academy in Vienna.

In 1937 the "Schnorrgasse", a street in Floridsdorf in the 21st district of Vienna, was named in honour of him and his brother Julius.

The Three Maries at the Grave of Jesus , about 1835
View from the Church in Annaberg over the Ötscher , 1842, Von der Heydt Museum