Carl Johann Steinhauser

Carl Stone Houses ( born July 3, 1813 in Bremen, † December 9, 1879 in Karlsruhe ) was a German sculptor of classicism from Bremen.

Life

Stone houses was the eldest son of a product originating in southern Germany woodcarver and sculptor who lived a Spiegelrahmgeschäft in Bremen. The sculptor Adolph stone houses and the painter Wilhelm stone houses were his brothers.

Stone houses first went at the Bremen painter and illustrator Stephan cutlers in the doctrine before he moved to Berlin and the Academy of Arts and there - henceforth devoted himself to sculpture - particularly under the guidance smoke. In 1835 he traveled with his brother William for a long stay in Rome. In 1863 he was a professor at the School of Art in Karlsruhe.

Stone houses is the creator of several important classical marble sculptures, which, according to Meyers Lexicon ( 4th edition from 1888 to 1890 ) " to the most exquisite creations of German sculpture in the 19th century [ count ] ." So he created in Bremen Monuments for Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers and Johann Smidt and the so-called stone houses vase, a sculpture of Goethe in Weimar with the psyche, the psyche Bound in Bremen and the group of Hermann and Dorothea in Karlsruhe.

From 1865 onwards, stone houses was active in the founding and leadership as well as the artistic advice for a marble quarry, the removal and processing of marble in Laas Venosta in South Tyrol. See Laas marble.

Carl Stone houses was married to the history and genre painter Pauline Marie Caroline Louise, born Francke ( 1810-1866 ).