JULIUS, an eminent German painter, was born at Leipzig on the 26th of March 1794. His father, who was likewise a painter of some note, designed him for a different profession; but his strong attachment to art at an unusually early age induced the father to change his mind, and he was accordingly sent to study in the Academy of Painting at Vienna. Having shown considerable artistic ability at that institution, he proceeded to Rome in 1815, and attached himself to the school of young German artists, then on the ascendant in that ancient city of art. Schnorr was reckoned among the most promising of these artists, and he was chosen, with Cornelius and Overbeck, to paint the walls of the villa Massimi at Rome in fresco, with designs from the great Italian poets Dante, Ariosto, and Tasso. Schnorr had the good fortune to gain an introduction to Ludwig, afterwards King of Bavaria, who employed him to assist in decorating the great works on which he was then engaged at Munich. His first task was to paint a series of frescoes from the ancient German poem, the Nibelungen Lied, to adorn the state apartments of the new palace. This series of paintings occupy five chambers, each bearing the name of the portion of the Lied depicted in it. There is the "Entrance Hall," the "Marriage Hall," the "Hall of Treachery," the "Hall of Revenge," and lastly, the "Hall of Lamentation," Schomberg. These paintings, all of which were executed by Schnorr and his pupils, attract great attention, and perhaps they are the most generally popular of all the great modern pictures in the galleries of Munich. He likewise, while these frescoes were in progress, was engaged upon that portion of the "Fest-Saalbau," devoted to an illustration of the history of Charlemagne, Frederick Barbarossa, and Rudolf of Hapsburg. He executed only the more important pictures in this series, the rest being painted by his pupils after his designs. They display, however, in their magnificent abundance, great technical skill and vigour of imagination; but they exhibit glaring defects of colouring and much redundancy of drapery. Schnorr had been appointed professor of historical painting in the Academy of the Fine Arts at Munich in 1827, and this situation he continued to fill till 1846, when he was chosen director of the Picture Gallery, and professor of the fine arts in Dresden. He died on the 13th April 1853.