Eduard Von Steinle

Edward Jakob von Steinle Eduard von Steinle, ( born July 2, 1810 in Vienna, † September 19, 1886 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an Austrian painter of the 19th century.

Life

Steinle was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and later by Leopold Kupelwieser and went in 1828 to Rome, where he closely joined to Friedrich Overbeck and Philipp Veit and remained until 1834. Back at home, he lived with some interruptions, among other things, prompted by a stay in Munich to learn the fresco technique with Peter von Cornelius, in Frankfurt am Main, where he became in 1850 the first professor at the Städel Institute.

In 1838 he led in the chapel of Bethmann - Hollwegschen castle Rheineck his first frescoes. Then he began in the cathedral choir of Cologne fresco paintings depicting the angel choirs on a gold background. In 1844 he painted for the Emperor's Hall at Frankfurt am Main, the judgment of Solomon. 1857 began the painting of St. Giles in Münster. From 1860 to 1863 occupied him four grand, the cultural development of the Rhineland signs ligand frescoes in the stairwell of the former Wallraf -Richartz Museum in Cologne.

Then he painted from 1865 to 1866 the choir seven niches of the Marienkirche in Aachen. After completion of the decoration of the princely Löwenstein -Wertheim 's chapel Kleinheubach with frescoes and ornaments him in 1875 transferred the painting of the choir in the cathedral in Strasbourg, and in 1880 he received from Frankfurt Dombauverein the job, fully imagine the interior of the Imperial Cathedral, which he extensive a design in association with the architect and glass artist Alexander Linnemann aufstellte.

Steinle has also created a large number of mostly religious easel pictures, but also portraits and romantic genre paintings held ( The watchman and The Violin Player in the gallery Schack to Munich); also a lot of drawings and watercolors, mostly of a religious nature, partly after Shakespeare's and other seals. These watercolors usually have a romantic train, he had early adopted by the marketing of Clemens Brentano, whose seals have also offered him several motives.

His main works in this genre include Rhine tales and the more Wehmüller according to Brentano, confessions in St. Peter at Rome, scene from "Twelfth Night " by Shakespeare ( in the Berlin National Gallery ), Snow White and Rose Red and the Parzival Cyklus, all watercolors.

Others

In Frankfurt, the artist is dedicated to the western entrance of the Städel new building beginning, parallel to Main Street runny stone.

Works

  • Edward von Steinle and August Reichenspergerplatz in their common aspirations for Christian art. Bachem, Cologne 1890 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf )
  • Alphons M. Steinle ( Editor): Eduard von Steinle, the master's oeuvre, 1910 Digitized output at open library
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