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eDuArD Von steInLe
Vienna 1810 – 1886 Frankfurt/Main
14 The Good Samaritan, 1837 – 1838
Design for a fresco in the Bethmann-hollweg chapel in
Burg rheineck
graphite
354 x 477 cm
Verso with stamp “nachlass ed. v. steinle”
ProVenance:
collection Boguslaw Jolles, Dresden/Vienna (lugt 381)
collection Michael Berolzheimer, garmisch-Partenkirchen
adolf weinmüller, Munich, March 9 – 10, 1939, no. 915
albertina, Vienna (inv. no. 28148)
restituted to the heirs of Michael Berolzheimer in 2010
as a pupil of the Viennese academy eduard von steinle traveled to
rome in 1828. there he entered the circle of Friedrich overbeck,
Philipp Veit and Joseph von Führich. Before returning to Vienna
in 1833 he assisted overbeck with his fresco work in assisi. in
1837 he received the commission to decorate the chapel of Burg
rheineck, on the rhine near Bad Breisig, with frescoes, for one of
which the present sheet is a preparatory drawing. to further his
abilities in the technique of fresco painting he went to Munich in
1838 to train with Peter von cornelius. in 1840, living in Frankfurt,
he was granted an atelier at the städel institute. influenced by
Moritz von schwind, he expanded his thematic repertoire. in 1850
he was appointed professor for history painting at the städel
institute, and as of 1861 he devoted himself to painting the staircase
of the wallraf-richartz-Museum in cologne as well as monumental
decorations for the recently completed cologne cathedral.
Fresco in the Bethmann-hollweg chapel