Schnorr was born in Leipzig to Johann Veit Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1764–1841), a draughtsman, engraver and painter.
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Schnorr followed the founders of the new artistic brotherhood, the Nazarene movement, in their pilgrimage to Rome in 1815.
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The Picture Bible illustrations were often complex and cluttered; some critics found them wanting in harmony of line and symmetry, judging them to be inferior to similar work produced by Raphael for his Bible.
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He then travelled to Munich to study the works of Zimmermann and Schnorr von Carolsfeld and for further studies in Paris and Drolling.