Franz Steinfeld

Franz Steinfeld, etching by Franz Xaver Stöber after Josef Danhauser , 1842

View of Hallstatt (1824)

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

Life

Franz Steinfeld was born in the Viennese suburb of Mariahilf in the house "Zum Braunen Adler", today Lindengasse 11. He was the son of the sculptor of the same name, Franz Steinfeld the Elder (1750-1832). With this, the son first learned to sculpt, but then, at the suggestion of Francesco Vasanova, switched to Laurenz Janscha , Martin von Molitor and Albrecht Christoph Dies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . In 1805 Steinfeld went on a study trip to the Rhine and the Netherlands , during which he dealt in particular with Jacob van Ruisdael .

In 1815 he married Dorothea Fertbauer, who came from a family of artists, whose brother was the landscape painter Leopold Fertbauer and whose uncle was the history painter Leopold Lieb. From 1815–1835 Steinfeld was a chamber painter for Archduke Anton Viktor .

Steinfeld exhibited at the academy for the first time in 1822 and became a member a year later. Finally he was there in 1837 corrector in the landscape class and 1845-1850 professor. Steinfeld pursued goals similar to those of his colleague Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , he called for studying before nature and offended with his suggestion to enlarge the windows in the academy (“More light!”). Some of his students became great artists. In addition to annual trips to the Alps , Steinfeld also visited Italy , Germany and Switzerland , and made a trip to Belgium and Holland with Josef Danhauser in 1842 . Steinfeld died on one of his trips in Bohemia.

In 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 , but also an etcher and lithographer . After his first study trip in 1805, he was mainly creating landscape studies from the area around Vienna. He was one of the first to discover the Alps as a motif for their pictures and is considered the first mood painter in Austrian art. He broke with the baroque view of landscape painting and became the founder of the classic Biedermeier landscape .

• View of Lake Hallstatt (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich , inv. No. 5862), 1824, oil on panel, 59.3 × 83 cm;
• Altausseer See with Trisselwand (Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum ), around 1825
• Landscape with a Peasant Woman (Wien Museum), 1830
• Im Höllental (St. Pölten, Museum Niederösterreich, inv. No. 437), 1837, oil on panel
• Lake Hallstatt (Vienna, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere ), 1834, oil on panel
• Dachstein with Lake Hallstatt (Salzburg, Residenzgalerie , Inv. No. 487), oil on panel, 55 × 44 cm

literature

• KW:  Steinfeld, Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 709 f.
• Werner Telesko :  Steinfeld, Franz d. J. (1787-1868), painter. 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. 183.
• C. Wiesboeck: Franz Steinfeld , Nekrolog. In: Archives for the arts of drawing with special reference to the art of engraving and woodcutting and their history , Volume 15, pp. 102 ff.
• Sonja Menches: Franz Steinfeld . Giese and Schweiger, Vienna 2016.
• Peter Pötschner: Franz Steinfeld and the overcoming of the Baroque in Viennese landscape painting . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1951.

Web links

Commons : Franz Steinfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Franz Steinfeld in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
• Entry on Franz Steinfeld in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )