Lot 75: Eduard von Steinbrück(Magdeburg 1802-1882 Landeck

Eduard von Steinbrück(Magdeburg 1802-1882 Landeck in Silesia) A Drunken Bacchus pursues Two Graces, Oil on canvas, 56 x 70 cm, framed, (Rei)Exhibited: Jexhof-Museum in Oberbayern, 'A tree as a monument; the oak', 2001.Illustrated in: Starnberger SZ, Ausgabe 18./19. August 2001.Provenance: South German Private CollectionEduard von Steinbrück: He began his artistic training in 1822 in the Berlin Atelier of Prof. W. Walch. In 1829 he travelled to Italy and then returned to Berlin in 1833, where he attended Wilhelm Schadows' masterclasses until the school year 1842/43. He had already attended the Berlin Art Academical Exhibition in 1826 and in 1841 he took part in it; in 1846 he returned to Berlin and was made a professor at the Art Academy. Steinbrück's pictures are very finely executed and show a great love of detail. Although he had studied first in Berlin, the greater part of his work owed more stylistically to the Düsseldorf school. From 1849, paintings from the Düsseldorf school were exhibited in New York. The works of Eduard von Steinbrück took on a particular standing and Steinbrück received rave reviews. The general reaction at the time, that the Düsseldorf pictures offered an important guide to American painters, took hold of the World, as follows: "We belive that our artists appreciate the need for serious study and that and our exhibitions would benefit from it. We could do just as well, and probably better, but only when we have ceased merely to play with art." ("Vice Versa German Painters in America, American Painters in Germany (1813-1913)", published by Hirmer 1996) .With Attestation: By Frau Prof. Dr. Irene Markowitz Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf from 23.11.1989.