Carl Johann Steinhäuser (3 July 1813 – 9 December 1879) was a noted German sculptor in the classical style.
Steinhäuser was born in
Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...
, the eldest son of a wood carver and sculptor. There he studied in the School of Drawing under painter and illustrator Stephen Messerer, then under
Christian Rauch at the
Berliner Akademie der Künste in Berlin. From 1835 to 1863 he lived in Rome, where he studied with
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen (; sometimes given as Thorwaldsen; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danes, Danish-Icelanders, Icelandic Sculpture, sculptor and medallist, medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–183 ...
, then served as professor of art at
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( ; ; ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart a ...
until his death.
Today he is best known for his Bremen memorials to
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers and
Johann Smidt
Johann Smidt (November 5, 1773 – May 7, 1857) was an important Bremen politician, theologian, and founder of Bremerhaven.
Biography
Smidt was a son of the Reformed preacher Johann Smidt sen., pastor at St. Stephen Church in Bremen. Smidt j ...
, his
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together w ...
sculpture of ''
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...
mit der Psyche'', and his ''
Hermann and Dorothea
''Hermann and Dorothea'' is an epic poem, an idyll, written by German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe between 1796 and 1797, and was to some extent suggested by Johann Heinrich Voss's ''Luise'', an idyll in hexameters, which was first publis ...
'' in Karlsruhe. Steinhäuser's work is represented in the United States by the "Angel of the Resurrection" for the Burd Family Memorial, commissioned in 1849 for the interior of
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, and for a copy of his ''
Orestes and Pylades'' marble sculpture at the
Palace Park in Karlsruhe erected by his former student Herman Kirn in
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, in 1884.
Among Steinhäuser's other students were
Otto Lessing and
Karl Friedrich Moest
Karl Friedrich Moest (also Carl Friedrich Moest: 26 March 1838 - 14 August 1923) was a German sculptor.
Life
Moest was born in Gernsbach, a short distance to the east of Baden-Baden. He learned drawing skills, etching on copper and steel, h ...
.
Image:Olbers-Denkmal-Bremen.JPG, Olbers Monument
Image:Smidt-Denkmal Bremen Rathaus.jpg, Memorial to Johann Smidt, Town Hall, Bremen
Image:Musician with a Violin, by Carl Johann Steinhauser (1813-1879).jpg, Musician with a Violin
References
* Helke Kammerer-Grothaus, ''Carl Johann Steinhäuser. 1813-1879, ein Bildhauer aus Bremen von Helke Kammerer-Grothaus'', Aschenbeck & Holstein, 2004. .
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1879 deaths
1813 births
19th-century German sculptors
19th-century German male artists
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