Claudius Schraudolph (1813 - 1891)

Claudius Schraudolph

Claudius Schraudolph, also known as Claudius Schraudolph the Elder was a nineteenth-century German painter. He is known as a historical and religious painter, graphic artist, muralist, muralist, lithographer and woodcrafter, brother of the painter Johann Schraudolph.

Schraudolph traveled to Italy early in his career to study the painting of old frescoes, after which he worked on fresco decorations of various residences and cathedrals, including St. Ludwig's Basilica and All Saints Cathedral in Munich. He later worked extensively in Bavaria, painting rural churches. His nephew was the painter Claudius Schraudolph the Younger.