Peter von Cornelius

1783–1867 · Romanticism

Peter von Cornelius was a German painter and one of the main representatives of the Nazarene movement. He was the uncle of the composer Peter Cornelius (1824–1874).

10 paintings

• Wirtshausszene (1820)
• The wise and the foolish virgins (1813)
• Die Grablegung Christi (1813)
• Flucht nach Ägypten (1818)
• Familienbildnis des Kurpfälzischen Hofrats Franz von Heister (1752–1833) (1812)
• Bildnis der Gattin des Edukationsrats Hadermann in Frankfurt a. M. (1810)
• Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers (1816)
• The Parable of Wise and Foolish Virgins (unfinished) (1813)
• The Three Marys at the Tomb (1818)
• Frescoes from the Casa Bartholdy in Rome (1816)