Carl Johann Steinhäuser (3 July 1813 – 9 December 1879) was a noted German sculptor in the classical style. Steinhäuser was born in

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, 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

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at the

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in Berlin. From 1835 to 1863 he lived in Rome, where he studied with

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, then served as professor of art at

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until his death. Today he is best known for his Bremen memorials to Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers and Johann Smidt, his

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sculpture of ''

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mit der Psyche'', and his ''

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'' 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

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, 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, ho ...

. 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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