Wilhelm Steuerwaldt
Wilhelm Steuerwaldt (born September 1, 1815 in Quedlinburg ; † December 7, 1871 there ) was a German landscape painter .
Life
Wilhelm Steuerwaldt was born in today's house Finkenherd 1 in Quedlinburg as the son of a drawing teacher and had close contact with painting even in his youth . After attending school, he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1833 . Before that he had been an apprenticeship with the Halberstadt architectural painter Carl Hasenpflug from 1830 to 1833. In 1836 he returned to Quedlinburg, where he worked as a drawing teacher and painter until the end of his life, creating over 200 paintings, mainly with romantic motifs from his hometown, but also from some places in the Harz Mountains . In 1839 he acquired the Klopstockhaus in Quedlinburg, which he owned until shortly before his death and which he sold in 1867.
Works
- (together with Carl Virgin): The medieval art treasures in the Zittergewölbe of the castle church in Quedlinburg: in addition to several external and internal views of the former Kaiserl. free world Stifts , 1855
- View of the Walkenried monastery ruins , oil on canvas, Romantikerhaus Jena
- The Munzenberg
- Crypt with a view of the Quedlinburg palace courtyard
- Quedlinburg Palace Square
literature
- Johannes Spitzmann: The resin in the painting of the romantic. Verlag Gustav Bröschen & Sohn, Wernigerode 1934, pp. 59–85. (Additionally with 11 s./w. Illustrations of Steuerwaldt works, including a portrait drawing showing the artist, created by a different hand.)
- Heiko Günther: Wilhelm Steuerwaldt - On the trail of a romantic resin painter. Publishing house ReDiRoma, Remscheid 2011, ISBN 978-3-86870-293-4 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steuerwaldt, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quedlinburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 7, 1871 |
| Place of death | Quedlinburg |