SCHWIND, MORITZ VON (1804-1871), German painter, was born in Vienna in 1804. His early art training was rudimen tary and at 17 he entered the circle of artists who gathered around Schubert in the capital and became a devoted friend and admirer of the composer, dividing his enthusiasm between music, poetry and painting. In after life he frequently introduced Schubert's portrait or the subjects of his songs into his paintings and illus trations. In 1827 Schwind went to Munich, where he came under the influence of Schnorr and Cornelius, and in 1834 was commissioned to decorate Ludwig II.'s new palace with wall paintings after Tieck. The revival of art in Germany was favour able to the development of his fanciful genius and he soon became popular through his illustrations of Goethe and other poets. From 1844 he lived in Frankfort, where he painted the "Singers' Con test in the Wartburg" (1846), made the designs for the Goethe celebrations and did numerous book illustrations. In 1847 he
became professor at the Munich academy. He died at Munich in 1871.
Schwind also designed the wall-paintings for the castle of Hohen-Schwangau in the Bavarian Tirol and for the Wartburg. In 1857 he published a cycle of the Seven Ravens from Grimm. Many of his watercolours etc. of the early Vienna days are pre served in the City Museum, and the Schubert sketches, including the large portrait group, "Schubert-Abend bei Josef R. von Spaun," a sepia drawing completed about 1868, are in the Schu bert Museum, Vienna. His "Symphony" (Neue Pinakotek, Munich) also contains portraits of Schubert and others of the circle.
See Karl Kobald, Schubert and Schwind (1928).