As an update and further refutation to claims such as this one by another poor hopeful, I include some portraits of Ludwig van Beethoven which are considered to have been painted from life.
These portraits represent a spectrum of age from young adulthood to late in life. At no point do any of these portraits show any traits which are even remotely Negroid. The hair is straight. The nose is not broad and flat, as claimed. There is no prognathism. However, his hair is clearly black in his younger years in these paintings. It is not a stretch to suggest that this characteristic may have accounted for the “Der Schwarzer” reports, a la Eric the Red (you don’t hear anyone claiming that he was a Cherokee).
As further evidence, here are photos of his death mask. Note the angular nose and thin lips. The overall facial structure is decidedly Northern European.
As my final entry, here is a photo of a lock of Beethoven’s hair. There’s nothing sub-Saharan about that.
