Alexander Maximilian Seitz

Alexander Maximilian Seitz (1811–1888) was a German painter and a leader of the Nazarene movement.

Life and work Seitz was born in Munich. He studied under Peter von Cornelius, and like Cornelius was a member of the Nazarene movement, a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art.

Two early pictures, Joseph sold by his Brethren and the Seven Sleepers, received speedy recognition. Heinrich Maria von Hess employed him on the frescoes in the Allerheiligen-Hofkirche (Court Church of All Saints). After he had painted compositions depicting four of the sacraments, Cornelius took him to Rome.

There Seitz found in Friedrich Overbeck a man of the same religious opinions, with a style which he at once sought to make his own. He aided Overbeck in carrying out the frescoes of the Evangelists and Apostles at Castel Gandolfo, and at a later date, when Overbeck's strength was no longer equal to the task, Seitz, with the aid of his son, Ludwig Seitz, painted frescoes in the cathedral at Diakovar (Đakovo) in Croatia partly according to Overbeck's and partly according to his own designs.

In 1846, he completed a set of three friezes depicting medieval scenes in pencil, ink and watercolor. He did an Ecce Homo in 1849. In 1853, he painted a "A Triptych depicting the Resurrected Christ with Agnes, Mary, John and Elisabeth and the Parables of Christ". In 1866, he painted The Angel Appearing to Joachim.