Franz Steinfeld

Franz Steinfeld the Younger ( born March 26, 1787 Mariahilf; † November 5, 1868 in Pisek, Bohemia ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Franz Steinfeld was today Lindengasse 11, born in the suburbs of Vienna Mariahilf in the house " to brown eagle." He was the son of the sculptor Franz Steinfeld the Elder ( 1750-1832 ). In this the son first learned the art of sculpture, but then switched to excitation by Francesco Vasanova at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to Laurenz Janscha, Martin von Molitor and Albert Christoph Dies. 1805 joined Steinfeld at a study tour to the Rhine and in the Netherlands, where he particularly dealt with Jacob van Ruisdael.

He married 1815, coming from a family of artists Dorothea Fertbauer whose brother the landscape painter Leopold Fertbauer and their uncle the history painter Leopold were lovers. 1815-35 Steinfeld was court painter to the Archduke Anton Victor.

1822, Stein- field for the first time in the Academy, and a year later became a member. After all, he was there in 1837 corrector in the landscape class and professor 1845-50. Steinfeld pursued similar goals as his colleague Ferdinand Georg Müller forest, he called for the study of nature and -stretched with his proposal to the window to zoom in the academy ( " More Light! " ) On. Some of his students became prominent artists. In addition to annual trips to the Alps Steinfeld also visited Italy, Germany and Switzerland, and made together with Josef Danhauser 1842 a trip to Belgium and Holland. On one of his trips Steinfeld died in Bohemia.

1901 Steinfeldgasse in Vienna - Heiligenstadt was named after the artist.

The painter Wilhelm Steinfeld (1816-1854) was the son of Franz Steinfeld.

Works

Franz Steinfeld was primarily a landscape painter, etcher and lithographer as well. After his first study trip in 1805 he created especially landscape studies from around Vienna. He was one of the first to discover the Alps as a motive for their images, and is considered the first painter mood in the Austrian art. He broke with the Baroque conception of landscape painting and became the founder of classic Biedermeier landscape.

  • View of Lake Hallstatt (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, inventory number 5862. ), 1824, oil on wood, 59.3 × 83 cm;
  • Altausseersee with Trisselwand (Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum ), 1825
  • Landscape with farmer (Vienna Museum ), 1830
  • In Hell Valley (St. Pölten, Lower Austrian Provincial Museum, Inv. No. 437), 1837, oil on wood
  • Lake Hallstatt (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), 1834, oil on wood
  • Dachstein Hallstatt See ( Salzburg, Residenz Gallery, Inv. No. 487 ), oil on wood, 55 × 44 cm
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