Carl Steinhäuser

This article is about the sculptor. For the musician, see Karl Steinhäuser .

Carl Steinhäuser

Carl stone houses (* 3. July 1813 in Bremen ; † 9. December 1879 in Karlsruhe ) was a German sculptor of classicism from Bremen.

Life

Steinhäuser was the eldest son of a woodcarver and sculptor from southern Germany who ran a mirror frame business in Bremen. The sculptor Adolph Steinhäuser and the painter Wilhelm Steinhäuser were his brothers.

Steinhäuser initially trained with the Bremen painter and draftsman Stephan Messerer . Then he moved to Berlin to the Academy of Arts . There - especially under the direction of Christian Daniel Rauch - he devoted himself to sculpture from then on. In 1835 he traveled to Rome for a longer stay with his brother Wilhelm . In 1863 he went to Karlsruhe as a professor at the art school .

Monument to Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers in the Bremen ramparts

Steinhäuser is the creator of several important classicist marble sculptures, which according to Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (4th edition from 1888 to 1890) "[count] among the most excellent creations of German sculpture in the 19th century". In Bremen, for example, he created the monuments to Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers and Johann Smidt as well as the so-called Steinhäuser Vase , the sculpture of Goethe with the Psyche in Weimar (today in the New Museum Weimar), the Bound Psyche in Bremen and the group of Hermann and Dorothea in Karlsruhe.

From 1865 Steinhäuser was involved in the founding and management as well as providing artistic advice for a marble quarry, the transport and processing of marble in Laas in the Vinschgau in South Tyrol . See also Lasa marble .

Carl Steinhäuser was married to the history and genre painter Pauline Marie Caroline Luise, b. Francke (1809-1866).

Works (selection)

• Stone house vase , ramparts, 1855
• Olbers monument in Bremen , ramparts, 1850

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Steinhäuser, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1879, p. 94 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Leopold von Pezold:  Steinhäuser, Carl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 716 f.
• Stone houses, Carl Johann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 563 .
• Jörn Christiansen, Angelika Lorenz, Alfred Löhr, Carsten Jöhnk, Regina Becker, Andreas Kreul, Anne Röver-Kumm, Dorothee Hansen , Wolfgang H. Hainke: Art and citizenship in Bremen . Hauschild, Bremen 2000, ISBN 3-89757-063-7 .
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Helke Kammerer-Grothaus: Carl Johann Steinhäuser 1813–1879, a sculptor from Bremen. Aschenbeck Media, Delmenhorst 2004, ISBN {3-932292-64-2.

Web links

Commons : Carl Steinhäuser  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Steinhäuser in the catalog of the German National Library