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 In Germany. 555 the Crossing of the Beresina : he also painted genre subjects. His brother, Heinrich von Hess (1798—1863), first brought himself into notice by his Sepulchre of Christ, and a Holy Family. After some years spent in Italy, he was made Professor of the Academy at Munich, and later Director of the Royal Collection. His picture of Christmas, painted for Queen Caroline, who was a liberal patron to him, is considered one of his best works. Johann Schraudolph (1808 — 1879), who studied under Cornelius in the Munich Academy, assisted in the pro- duction of the frescoes in the Glyptothek, and the History of Moses, from the designs of Hess, in the Allerheiligen- kirche. After a visit to Rome, he was employed by King Lud wig to decorate the cathedral of Spires ; the paintings which he there executed gained him great fame. Johann Bonaventura Genelli (1800 — 1868) studied first in Berlin, and then under Cornelius and Overbeck in Rome. After painting in Leipsic, he settled in 1836 at Munich, and became noted for his numerous compositions of mythologic and sacred history. Christian Ruben (1805 — 1875) studied originally under Cornelius at Diisseldorf. He then painted at Munich, Prague, and at Vienna, where he was made Director of the Academy of Arts. He painted sacred subjects and scenes from the history of Bohemia. 3. Genre Painters in Germany. In addition to the two great schools founded by Over- beck and Cornelius, many good German painters of scenes of common life have arisen of late years. The principal of these were : —