Edward von Steinle

Edward von Steinle, portrait by V. Schertle, 1846

Choir fresco in the Strasbourg Cathedral

Country pastor carries the Viaticum across the mountains , drawing by Edward von Steinle, 1864, the artist giving the depicted pastor the facial features of his friend Bishop Nikolaus von Weis from Speyer

Edward Jakob von Steinle (also 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

Edward von Steinle was a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna , later by Leopold Kupelwieser, and went to Rome in 1828 , where he closely followed Friedrich Overbeck and Philipp Veit and stayed until 1834. After returning home, he lived with a few interruptions, including a stay in Munich to learn the fresco technique with Peter von Cornelius , in Frankfurt am Main, where he became the first professor at the Städel Institute in 1850 .

In 1838 he executed his first frescoes in the chapel of the Bethmann-Hollwegschen Schloss Rheineck . Then he began fresco paintings in the Cologne Cathedral Choir , depicting choirs of angels on a gold background. In 1844 he painted the judgment of Solomon for the Kaisersaal in Frankfurt am Main . In 1857 the painting of the Aegidien Church in Münster began . From 1860 to 1863 he was occupied with the four large frescoes depicting the cultural development of the Rhineland in the stairwell of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne.

Then from 1865 to 1866 he painted the seven choir niches of the Marienkirche in Aachen . After completing the decoration of the princely Löwenstein-Wertheimschen chapel in Kleinheubach with frescoes and ornaments, he was given the task of painting the choir in the cathedral in Strasbourg in 1875 , and in 1880 he was commissioned by the Frankfurt Dombauverein to paint the entire interior of the imperial cathedral , including an extensive one Draft in association with the architect and glass painter Alexander Linnemann .

Steinle also created a large number of mostly religious easel pictures, but also portraits and genre pictures with a romantic touch ( The Tower and The Violin Player in the Schack Gallery in Munich); also a number of drawings and watercolors , some of them religious, some based on Shakespeare's and other poems. These watercolors usually have a romantic streak, which he had adopted early on through his intercourse with Clemens Brentano , whose poems also offered him several motifs.

His main works of this genre are: Rheinmärchen and the several Wehmüller after Brentano, the confession in St. Peter in Rome , scene from “ Was ihr wollt ” by Shakespeare (in the Berlin National Gallery), Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot and the Parzival cycle , all watercolors .

Honors

In Frankfurt am Main, Steinlestrasse, which begins at the west entrance of the new Städel building and runs parallel to the Main, is named after the artist.

Works

• Edward von Steinle and August Reichensperger in their common endeavors for Christian art . Bachem, Cologne 1890 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
• Alphons M. Steinle (editor): Eduard von Steinle, the master's complete works , 1910 Digitized edition at openlibrary

gallery

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  Eduard von Steinle. Lithograph by Adolf Dauthage

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  Wall painting by Edward von Steinle, in the south transept of Frankfurt Cathedral

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  Historical photo of the high altar paintings by Edward von Steinle in the chapel of Löwenstein Castle , Kleinheubach

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  Löwenstein Castle Chapel (2014), altar wall with paintings by Eduard von Steinle

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  Assumption of the Virgin Mary, high altar painting in the princely house chapel of Löwenstein Castle

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  Eduard von Steinle, right high altar painting in the chapel of Löwenstein Castle

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  Emperor Franz Joseph I in prayer, with his name and house patrons ; Edward von Steinle, around 1850

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  Marien Altarpiece in the Leonhardskirche (Frankfurt am Main)

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

• Norbert Suhr: Christian Lotsch, Philipp Veit and Eduard von Steinle: On the artist caricature of the 19th century (= manuscripts for art history in the Wernerschen Verlagsgesellschaft 5). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1985, ISBN 978-3-88462-903-1
• Werner Telesko :  Steinle, Eduard Jakob von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 194 f. (Direct links on p. 194 , p. 195 ).
• Veit Valentin:  Steinle, Eduard Jacob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 742-744.
• Constantin von Wurzbach , A Madonna Painter of Our Time (Vienna 1879).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Steinle, Eduard Jacob . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 108–142 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Eduard Jakob von Steinle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Edward von Steinle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Edward von Steinle  in the German Digital Library
• Works by Edward von Steinle at Zeno.org .
• Steinle, Eduard Jakob von . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 15, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 276.
• Illustrations by Eduard von Steinles to Clemens Brentano's "Chronicle of the Traveling Schoolboy"
• Estate in the Bavarian State Library