10 Facts About Philipp Veit

Philipp Veit was a German Romantic painter and one of the main exponents of the Nazarene movement.

Philipp Veit was the son of a banker, Simon Veit and his wife Brendel, daughter of Moses Mendelssohn.

From 1808 on, Philipp Veit received his first art education at the Royal Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he was taught by Friedrich Matthai and Caspar David Friedrich, later in Vienna.

Philipp Veit was strongly influenced by, and joined, the Nazarene movement in Rome, where he worked for some years before moving to Frankfurt.

In 1810, Philipp Veit converted to Catholicism together with his mother and his senior brother Johannes Philipp Veit.

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In 1816, Philipp Veit joined the brotherhood which inhabited—or had occupied—the abandoned monastery of Sant'Isidoro.

In 1817, Philipp Veit received the commission for a fresco in the Museo Chiaramonti with the allegorical subject of The Triumph of the Religion.

In 1821, Philipp Veit had married a young girl, Carolina Pulini, the daughter of his landlord, the sculptor Gioacchino Pulini .

Still in Rome in 1824, Philipp Veit was depicted as a member of German artists' circles in Franz Ludwig Catel's famous group portrait Crown Prince Ludwig in the Spanish Wine Tavern in Rome; Philipp Veit is said to be the person sitting between the two standing figures of von Wagner and Dr Ringseis on the right side of the table.

In October 1830, Philipp Veit arrived in Frankfurt on Main together with his wife Carolina and their five children.