The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Pixis, Theodor Ludwig August

PIXIS, Theodor Ludwig August, a German painter, born in Kaiserslautern, July 1, 1831. He studied in Munich, and exhibited in 1855 “Coriolanus and his Mother” and “Frederick II. of Hohenstaufen and Peter de Vineis,” and in 1856 “Huss taking leave of his Friends at Constance.” Subsequently he spent several years in Italy, and from 1858 to 1863 he executed frescoes illustrative of the history of Charles X. and XI. of Sweden, for the Bavarian national museum. The most celebrated of his later cartoons illustrate early and modern German poetry. He has also produced a fine picture of Calvin's last conversation with Servetus in his prison at Geneva.