Xaver Steifensand

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Franz Xaver Steifensand (born March 8, 1809 in Kaster ; † January 6, 1876 in Düsseldorf ) was a German copper and steel engraver , draftsman and illustrator at the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Picture show of the Düsseldorf artists in the art academy (from left): Wilhelm von Schadow, Ernst Deger , Franz Ittenbach , Xaver Steifensand, Karl Josef Ignatz Mosler , Johann Peter Hasenclever , Johann Wilhelm Preyer , Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , Carl Wilhelm Huebner , Carl Friedrich Lessing, Henry Ritter , Adolf Schrödter , Caspar Scheuren , Karl Schnaase , Friedrich Boser

Life

Franz Xaver Steifensand, born in Kaster, was one of eight children of Heinrich Joseph Steifensand (1745–1840), born in Mainz, and Amalia Derscheid (1778–1828) from Oberingelheim, who settled in Kaster at the end of the French era in 1803 had. His brother was the composer and pianist Wilhelm Steifensand (1812–1882).

Xaver Steifensand learned the craft of copperplate printing and engraving at the C. Schulgen-Bettendorff copper printing works in Bonn . His teacher there was primarily a copper printer and the plates produced were rarely artistic. For his well-founded artistic training, Steifensand therefore went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy at the age of 21 , first in the preparatory class of Carl Ferdinand Sohn , then in the engraving class of his brother-in-law Joseph von Keller , until he got into the master class of Wilhelm von Schadow . He received further training from Jakob Felsing in Darmstadt . The stiff sand, which was previously designed in the “dot style”, consistently developed the method of “line engraving” until the panels were completed, with which paintings could be reproduced in all shades.

He completed his first major work in 1844 with the steel engraving Das Gewitter after Jakob Becker , which had found widespread use by the Kunstverein for the Rhineland and Westphalia and at the same time made the young artist known. In the following years, Steifensand gained a great reputation in his profession and became the leading reproduction engraver at the Düsseldorf School of Painting . In 1846 he joined the Düsseldorf Artists 'Association for mutual support and assistance and two years later he was one of the founders of the Malkasten Artists' Association . The Berlin Royal Prussian Academy of the Arts awarded him the title of professor in 1873.

Xaver Steifensand married Margaretha (1813–1896) from the Schulgen family in 1837. Around 1872 Steifensand had the headquarters of the copper printing works "Schwan & Steifensand" at Poststrasse 22. In 1876, at the age of 67, Xaver Steifensand died and was buried in a Düsseldorf grave of honor . His wife Margaretha was still based at the address in 1889 and continued the copper printing works of the Royal Art Academy C. Schulgen-Bettendorff (Schwan & Steifensand) with Erwin von Schütz and her daughter Margarethe Steifensand at Elisabethstrasse 42, Düsseldorf. The co-owner of the copper printing works Wilhelm Schwan, married to Anna Schulgen, died in 1898.

Honors

A street in Kaster still reminds of the engraver Xaver Steifensand, the Steifensandstraße. A portrait of Steifensand, painted by Clemens Bewer in 1849 , hangs in the Düsseldorf City Museum .

plant

The Adoration of the Magi , 1873, after Paolo Veronese
The wise and the foolish virgins , according to Friedrich Overbeck

Xaver Steifensand contributed to the complete editions of German poet princes such as Schiller's “Complete Works” and scenes from Goethe's “ Faust ” ( Part I and Part II) and participated with steel engravings in the “Representations from the Gospels” according to Friedrich Overbeck . He also created portraits and the prayer book pictures of the Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images in Düsseldorf, which was founded in 1841 under the patronage of Johannes von Geissel , which were widespread in his time . The culmination of his work in 1873 was the engraving “The Adoration of the Three Magi” based on a model by Paolo Veronese .

Works (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Xaver Steifensand  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae: Joseph von Keller, brother-in-law of Xaver Steifensand , Landschaftsverband Rheinland, accessed on June 25, 2016
  2. ↑ Steifensand (Xaver), copper engraver: pupil of the academy in Düsseldorf and von Felsing , in the repertory of the Königl. Kunst-Akademie zu Düsseldorf collection, list of artists, p. 266
  3. ↑ Das Gewitter , steel engraving by Xaver Steifensand (1809–1876) after the painting, 1840, by Jakob Becker (1810–1872). 32.7 x 45.4 cm. Berlin, Collection Archive for Art and History.
  4. ↑ Margaretha Steifensand death note, on rhein-erft-geschichte.de, accessed on June 25, 2016.
  5. ↑ Steifensand, Xav., Kuperst .; Uffocie of the company: Schwan u. Stiff sand. Poststrasse 22 , in the address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf, 1872
  6. ↑ Steifensand, Xaver, Professor, Kuperst .; Uffocie of the company: Schwan u. Stiff sand. Poststrasse 22 , in the address book of the mayor's office, 1875
  7. ↑ Death note : Franz Xavier Felix Steifensand , on rhein-erft-geschichte.de, accessed on June 25, 2016.
  8. ^ Steifensand, Margarethe (partner in the Schwan & Steifensand company), Poststr. 22; Steifensand, Xaver, Wwe., Geb. Schulgen, pensioner (partner in the Schwan & Steifensand company), Poststr. 22 , in: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office, 1889
  9. ↑ Schwan & Steifensand, Elisabethstr. 42 , in: Address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1895
  10. ↑ Death note: Wilhelm Schwan
  11. ↑ Representations from the Gospels based on forty original drawings by Friedrich Overbeck. In the possession of Baron Alfred von Lotzbeck auf Weyhern, engraved by B. Bartoccini, Jos. Keller, Fr. Keller, F. Ludy, F. Massau, H. Nüsser, FA Pflugfelder, X. Steifensand u. A. Düsseldorf Schulgen [1850/52]. 1850
  12. ↑ Carsten Kretschmann: Knowledge popularization: Concepts of the dissemination of knowledge in change , Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2003, ISBN 3-05-003770-9 p. 271
  13. ↑ The Adoration of the Magi, Xaver Steifensand Stecher; Engraving by: Caliari, Paolo (1528)
  14. ^ Illustration of the Rhineland sagas , in Deutsche Fotothek
  15. ^ Daniel in der Löwengrube , in Deutsche Fotothek
  16. ^ S. Catharina , in Deutsche Fotothek
  17. ↑ Figure Copernicus , in Deutsche Fotothek
  18. ^ Romulus Ascension (not digitized) , in Deutsche Fotothek
  19. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt : On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century , Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902 ( Digitalis p. 82 )
  20. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century , Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902 ( digitized p. 102 )
  21. ↑ Die Dioskuren : German art newspaper; Main organ of the German art associations, No. 1, January 1, 1857, p. 68, digitized version at the Heidelberg University Library.
  22. ^ Engraving Adelbert von Chamisso , on Tripota, accessed June 23, 2016
  23. ↑ Figure Karl Immermann , on digital portrait index
  24. ^ Xaver Steifensand (Kaster 1809 - 1876 Düsseldorf): Ferdinand Franz Wallraf, 1861, engraving after the Wallraf portrait by Egidius Mengelberg. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Graphic Collection. Inv. No. WRM Dep. 1998/1
personal data
SURNAME Stiff sand, Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steifensand, Franz Xavier Felix (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Caster
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1876
Place of death Dusseldorf