Editing Philipp Veit (section)

==Biography==
Veit was born in [[Berlin]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]]. He was the son of a banker, [[Simon Veit]] and his wife [[Dorothea von Schlegel|Brendel]], daughter of [[Moses Mendelssohn]]. After Veit's parents divorced in 1799, Veit initially stayed with his mother and lived with her and her new husband [[Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel|Friedrich Schlegel]] in [[Jena]], Paris, and Cologne. In 1806, he returned to his father in Berlin and finished his schooling in the [[Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster|"Graues Kloster"]]. From 1808 on, Veit received his first art education at the Royal [[Academy of Fine Arts|Dresden Academy of Fine Arts]], where he was taught by [[Friedrich Matthäi]] and [[Caspar David Friedrich]],<ref name="Suhr 2016">{{Cite web |last=Suhr |first=Norbert |date=2016 |title=Veit, Philipp |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118804111.html#ndbcontent |access-date=20 March 2022 |website=Neue Deutsche Biographie}}</ref><ref name="Philipp Veit">{{cite web|title=Philipp Veit|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/philipp-veit|publisher=Oxford Grove Art|access-date=11 March 2013}}</ref>  later in [[Vienna]]. Although a prodigious talent when it came to drawing, Veit was not comfortable with oil painting, for which reason in Vienna he took to the medium of watercolour. In Vienna, he made the acquaintance of Schlegel, and through him came to know several Viennese Romantics, one of whom was the poet and novelist [[Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff|Joseph von Eichendorff]].<ref name="Philipp Veit"/>  He was strongly influenced by, and joined, the [[Nazarene movement]] in [[Rome]], where he worked for some years before moving to [[Frankfurt]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1810, Veit converted to Catholicism together with his mother and his senior brother [[Johannes Veit]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Die Mendelssohns |url=https://www.mendelssohn-gesellschaft.de/mendelssohns/biografien/philipp-veit |access-date=19 March 2022}}</ref> While participating in the struggle against Napoleon in 1813–14 (the [[German campaign of 1813]] or [[War of Liberation|War of the Sixth Coalition]]), first as a ''Lützower Jäger'' and part of the [[Lützowsche Freikoprs|Lützow Free Corps]], subsequently as a member of the ''Kleistsche Armeekorps'', a corps led by [[Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf]], and returning to Berlin for a short period, Veit became closer friends with the mentioned above poet [[Joseph von Eichendorff|Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff]] and his own lieutenant [[Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué]].<ref name="Suhr 2016"/> Beginning in 1811, Veit was more teaching himself and finished a couple of portraits ([[Julie Gräfin von Zichy|Zichy-Vásonykeő, Julie Gräfin]], lost; [[Franz Xaver von Baader]] and other members of Vienna's society and exponents of Romanticism). In 1815, he finished his first religious painting. ''Virgin with Christ and St John'', a votive painting for the church of [[Heiligenstadt St. James's Church|St James in Heiligenstadt]], Vienna. The painting shows already close ties to the Nazarene movement and thus was inspired by the style of [[Pietro Perugino]] and [[Raphael]].<ref name="Philipp Veit"/>