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(1847), Nantes Museum; Soap-Bubbles (1847); Young Mother, Morning (1848); Woman and her Child, Gillyflowers (1849).—Larousse; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 589.
STEINICKE, HEINRICH, born at Leer,
East Friesland, May 5, 1825. Landscape
painter, pupil of Hanover Polytechnic School;
then studied at The Hague, and since 1852
in Düsseldorf; has made frequent sketching
tours to Holland, Norway, Bavaria, Austria,
Switzerland, and Italy. Works: Fjord
in Norway (1855); Chiem Lake, Bavarian
Mountain Landscape (1858), Stettin Museum;
Ober Lake (1859), Courtray Museum;
Approaching Storm (1860); Evening in
Mountains (1862), Emperor Wilhelm; Evening
on the Heath (1864), Provinzial Museum,
Hanover; Noon Rest on Mountain Lake;
German Landscape.—Müller, 505.
STEINKOPF, GOTTLOB FRIEDRICH
VON, born in Stuttgart in 1779, died there
in 1861. Landscape and history painter, son
and pupil of Johann Friedrich Steinkopf
(1737-1825, court painter in Stuttgart in
1801). Went to Vienna in 1799, and to Rome
in 1807, where he was intimate with Koch,
Schick, and Overbeck, and took Claude Lorrain
and Poussin for his models; lived in
Vienna in 1814-21, then in Stuttgart, where
he became instructor at the Art School in
1829, professor in 1833, director in 1845,
and retired in 1855. Honorary member of
Berlin Academy in 1825, of Vienna Academy
in 1836. Würtemberg Crown Order.
Works: Morning of Sacrifice (1810); Return
of Hercules from Lion Hunt (1812);
Italian Vintage, Ulysses and Nausicaä (1818-20);
Evening in Italy (1828); Cleobis and
Biton (1833); Suabian Spring (1839); Elysian
Fields (1843), Stuttgart Museum;
Views near Stuttgart (1827), Villa Rosenstein
near Stuttgart.—Wurzbach, xxxviii.
106.
STEINLE, EDUARD, born in Vienna,
July 2, 1810, died at Frankfort, Sept. 19,
1886. History painter, pupil of Vienna
Academy and of Küpelwieser; went in 1828
to Rome, where Overbeck and Veit befriended
him; returned in 1834, visited Frankfort
in 1837, studied fresco painting in Munich
under Cornelius in 1838,
settled in Frankfort in
1842, and became professor
at the Städel Institute
there in 1850.
Next to Overbeck, with
whose style he has identified
himself, and to
Führich, he is the most
distinguished representative
of religious art in
Germany. Member of Berlin, Vienna, Munich,
and Hanau Academies. Gold medal
for art and science; gold medal, Paris, and
L. of Honour, 1855; Order of Leopold,
1860; do. of Francis Joseph, etc. Oil paintings:
St. Luke painting the Virgin (1840),
Basle Museum; Solomon's Judgment (1840),
Emperors Albrecht I. and Ferdinand III.
(1841), Römer, Frankfort; Sibylla Tiburtina
(1848), Städel Gallery, ib.; Madonna
(1854), St. Leonard's, ib.; Visitation (1841),
Raczynski Gallery, Berlin; do. (1848), Carlsruhe
Gallery; Madonna Fontana (1854), Vienna
Museum; Castle Ward (1854), Weimar
Museum; Madonna (1856), Speyer Cathedral;
St. Joseph (1859), St. Mary's, Aix-la-Chapelle;
Warder of Tower (1858), Fiddler
in Tower (1862), Lorelei (1864), Adam and
Eve (1867), Schack Gallery, Munich; Adoration
of the Cross (1885). Water-colours:
Madonnas, Saints, and many biblical and
religious subjects; illustrations to German
Fairy Tales (1861-74); do. to Dante (1835),
Shakespeare (1868-72); do. to Wolfram von
Eschenbach (1875); five scenes from Parcival
(1884); allegories, landscapes, etc.
In fresco: The Eight Beatifications (1838-40),
Chapel of Castle Rheineck, Rhenish
Prussia (cartoons for do., Städel Gallery,
Frankfort); Choir of Angels (1843-46), Cologne
Cathedral (cartoons in Carlsruhe Gallery);
ceiling and wall paintings (1857-58),
St. Egidius, Münster; scenes in History of
Art and Civilization in Cologne (1860-63),
Staircase, Cologne Museum; seven pictures