Pauline Steinhäuser
Pauline Maria Luise Steinhäuser , b. Francke (born December 25, 1809 in Güstrow , † June 21, 1866 in Karlsruhe ) was a German history and genre painter .
Life
Pauline Francke was a daughter of the Güstrow cathedral preacher and later superintendent Peter Heinrich Francke (1766–1838) and his second wife Helene Elisabeth Henriette Augustine, née. by Kamptz . Heinrich Friedrich Francke was one of her twelve siblings.
She studied painting, first in Berlin, then in Dresden with Friedrich Matthäi and finally together with Louise von Meyern-Hohenberg in Weimar as a student of Louise Seidler . In Weimar she worked under the guidance of Louise Seidler in her studio until the summer of 1832 on her painting The Awakening of Spring , which she sent in for an exhibition in Berlin in 1832.
She was in lively correspondence with Bettina von Arnim . In 1834 she returned to Güstrow to look after her parents. After the death of his parents in 1839 she came with her sister Auguste (1817-1869) to Rome , where she in 1840 the sculptor Carl Steinhäuser married, whom she had met in the Salon of 1832/1833 Bettina von Arnim and with whom she had been engaged since 1834 . In 1844 she converted to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1848 her husband followed suit. Auguste married Wilhelm Henzen in Rome .
When her husband was appointed professor at the Karlsruhe Art School , the couple moved there in 1863. They had two children: their daughter Maria (married Bellardi), who stayed in Rome, and their son Johannes, who lived as a sculptor and entrepreneur ( Lasa marble ) in Laas (South Tyrol) .
Works (selection)
- Christ and the Samaritan Woman (around 1850); Johannes and Archangel Michael in the State Museum Schwerin
- Portrait of the sculptor Johann Karl Friedrich Riese , Kupferstichkabinett Dresden
- Crucifixion (altar painting) in the village church Diedrichshagen
literature
- Karl Obser : Bettina von Arnim and her correspondence with Pauline Steinhäuser in: Neue Heidelberger Jahrbücher , Volume 12 (1903)
- Steinhäuser, Pauline Marie Luise, b. Francke . 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 .
- Steinhäuser, Pauline Marie Luise (1810–1866), Painter. In: Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , doi : 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00175245 (restricted).
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9683 .
Web links
- Literature about Pauline Steinhäuser in the state bibliography MV
- Entry to Pauline Steinhäuser in Kalliope
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at leo-bw.de.
- ^ Peter Heinrich Francke. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 16 / I (1838), pp. 199-202 ( books.google.com ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stone houses, Pauline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinhäuser, Pauline Maria Luise (full name); Francke, Pauline (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German history and genre painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guestrow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1866 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |