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- wig Church, Berlin; Episode in Magdeburg's
Destruction; Hylas carried off by Nymphs; Guardian Angel and Water-*Sprites (1870); Lorelei, Rübezahl (1872); Erl-King's Daughters (1874). In fresco: Ceiling Medallions, New Museum, Berlin; Resurrection, Angels, Chapel of Palace, ib.; Christ on Mount of Olives, Church of Peace, Potsdam.—Müller, 504; Jordan (1885), ii. 222; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 51; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 186; Wiegmann, 144.
STEINER, JOHANN NEPOMUK, born
at Iglau, Moravia, May 16, 1725, died in Vienna
in 1792. German school; history and
portrait painter, self-taught; went to Rome,
where he took Raphael Mengs for his model.
In 1751 visited Venice; then lived in Iglau,
until the Empress Maria Theresa called him
to Vienna as court painter about 1755.
Member of Academy in 1767. Works:
Death of St. James; St. Aloysius, Ignatius
Loyola, Martyrdom of Stephen; St. Joseph,
A Chemist, Vienna Academy. Portraits of
Maria Theresa, Joseph II., Prince Kaunitz,
Field-Marshal Loudon, the Poet Metastasio.
Fresco paintings in different
churches.—Wurzbach, xxxviii. 69; Nagler,
xvii. 286.
STEINFELD, FRANZ, born in Vienna,
May 26, 1787, died at Pisek, Bohemia, Nov.
3, 1868. Landscape painter, pupil of his
father and of Prokop in sculpture, then of
Vienna Academy in painting. Appointed
chamber painter by Archduke Anton in
1815; became corrector at Vienna Academy
in 1837, professor in 1838. Travelled much
in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,
Holland, Belgium, and France. Gold medal
in 1848. His style sometimes recalls Ruisdael.
He probably painted about 800 pictures.
Works: Rocky Landscape near Baden
(1820); Hallstadt Lake (1834); Swampy
Wood and Deserted Mill (1846), Vienna
Museum; Day-Break (1847); Gastein 44
Years ago (1857).—Wurzbach, xxxviii. 81;
Kunst-Chronik, iv. 84; Nagler, xvii. 288.
STEINFURTH, HERMANN, born in
Hamburg in 1824, died there, Feb. 7, 1880.
History and portrait painter, pupil in Düsseldorf
of Karl Sohn, and of the Academy
under Schadow in 1845-52; returned to
Düsseldorf after having visited Italy, and
settled in Hamburg. Works: Entombment
(1844); Education of Jupiter (1846), Cologne
Museum; Abduction of Hylas (1847);
Resurrection of Christ, Peter, Paul, St. Peter's,
Hamburg; Diana surprised by Actæon
(1847), Tithonus abducted by Eos, Tartarus,
Bacchantes, Portraits of Hermann
Kauffmann, Ludwig Knaus, of himself, and
three others, Kunsthalle, ib.—Kunst-Chronik,
xv. 386; Graph. K., ii. 60.
STEINHAUSEN, WILHELM, born at
Sorau, Feb. 2, 1846. History painter and
illustrator, pupil of Berlin Academy in 1863-66,
and of Carlsruhe Art School until 1869.
Resided in Berlin; spent a year in Rome,
and settled in Frankfort in 1876; illustrates
especially religious subjects. Works: Peter's
Deliverance from Prison; History of
the Birth of Our Lord (1872); Labourer in
the Vineyard (1881). In fresco: Decorations
of Ravenstein House, Frankfort.—Müller,
505.
STEINHÄUSER, PAULINE, née Frank,
died in 1816. History painter, wife of the
sculptor Karl Steinhäuser. Works: Queen
Esther, Schloss Bellevue, Berlin; Iphigenia,
Fräulein von Waldenburg, ib.; Christ and
the Woman of Samaria, Infant St. John
(1846), Archangel Michael, Schwerin Gallery;
Genius of the Vine (1848); Madonna
(1862).—Cotta's Kunstbl., 1848; D. Kunstbl.,
1857; Dioskuren, 1862.
STEINHEIL, LOUIS CHARLES AUGUSTE,
born at Strasburg, June 26, 1814,
died in Paris in May, 1885. Genre, portrait,
and flower painter, pupil of Decaisne. Has
latterly devoted himself to glass painting
and church decoration. Medals: 3d class,
1847; 2d class, 1848; 3d class, 1851; L. of
Honour, 1860. Works: Consolations, Leonora
(1836); Young Virgin presented to
Christ (1840); St. Philomena (1841); Materfamilias,
My Finger told me so (1845);
Fruit and Wine, Interior (1846); Mother