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 STEFFAN STEFFAN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, born at Wiidenswyl, Switzerland, Dec. 13, 1815. Landscape painter, pupil of the Mu- nich Academy under Cornelius, after study- ing lithography. Devoted himself to land- scape in 1841, taking Kottmann for model. Made excursions to Bavarian and Swiss Alps, Upper Italy, and with Friedrich Voltz to Par- is. Medals in Berne and Vienna. Works : Woodland near Berchtesgaden, two others, Basle Museum ; View near Meiringen (1852), Approaching Storm in Canton Glarus, Berne Museum ; Autumn Morning, View on Brienz Lake, St. Gall Museum ; Mountain Brook, Zu- rich Gallery ; Reichenbach Fall (1853) ; Among Higher Alps, NewPinakothek, Munich ; Four Seasons in four Swiss Landscapes (1857) ; View on Vierwaldstatter Lake (1860) ; Moun- tain Brook ; Chillon on Lake of Geneva (1862); Waterfall in Norway, Provinzial Mu- seum, Hanover ; Autumn in South Germany (1864), Konigsberg Museum ; Valley of the Elm in Canton Glarus (1865) ; View in Ba- varian Highlands (1866) Leipsic Museum ; Rocky Gorge of Aare (1870) ; Gmunden Lake (1873) ; Heights of Brienz Lake (1877) ; Autumn Day in St. Gallen Alps (1878), Dresden Gallery ; View of Ramsau (1879) ; Ravine and Torrent on Glarner Alp, Waterfall after Storm (1882) ; Gorge at Ro- senlaui Glacier (1885). Miiller, 503 ; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 853. STEFFECK, KARL, born in Berlin, April 4, 1818. Ani- mal painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Krtiger and Begas, of Delaroche in Paris in 1839, and studied in Italy in 1840-42. Be- gan with animal pict- ures, but soon com- bined history and genre with them ; paints also good portraits, especially eques- trian. Director of Konigsberg Academy since 1880. Member of Berlin and Vienna Academies. Medals : Berlin, Paris, 3d class, 1855, and Philadelphia ; L. of Honour, 1878 ; Prussian Crown Order, 2d class, 1885. Works: Godfrey of Bouillon rescuing Hermit from Bear (1838) ; Span of Buffaloes (1849), Kon- igsberg Museum ; Capture of a Standard by Margrave Albrecht Achilles (1848), Span- iels fighting for Sun-Shade (1850), Mare with Colts (1877), National Gallery, Berlin ; Horse Pond ; Dead Colt ; Hare, Fox on the Watch (1859) ; Work Horses (1860) ; Catch- ing Wild Horses ; King Wilhelm at Sadowa (1867), Royal Palace, Berlin ; Scene in An- teroom, Ravene Gallery, ib. ; String of Horses (1872) ; Racing (1874) ; Gypsy Boy riding through a Wood (1876); Stag Hunt in Grii- newald, Meet, Stettin Museum ; Portraits of Emperor Wilhelm, Crown Prince, and Field Marshal Manteuffel. In fresco : Epi- sode after Battle of Sedan (1884), Arsenal, Berlin. Andresen, v. 104 ; Jordan (1885), ii. 220; Muller, 504; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 886 ; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 289 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1876), ii. 197 ; Leixner, Mod. K, ii. 115 ; Land und Meer (1883), ii. 260. STEINBRUCK, EDUARD, bom at Mag- deburg, May 3, 1803, died at Landeck, Si- lesia, Feb. 3, 1882. History and genre painter, pupil of Wach in Berlin in 1822- 29 ; went to Diisseldorf in 1829, then to Rome, and returned to Berlin in 1833. Af- ter a long residence in Dttsseldorf, settled in Berlin in 1846, but retired to Landeck, Silesia, in 1876. Member of Berlin Acad- emy in 1841 ; professor in 1854. Works : Expulsion from Paradise, Angel at the Gate of Heaven (1825); Hagar in the Desert (1829); Roman Woman hunting as a Nymph ; Ma- donna and Child ; Children Bathing (1834), Mary among the Elves (1840), National Gal- lery, Berlin ; replica of latter, Raczynski Gallery, ib.; St. Genevieve (1835), Darm- stadt Museum ; Thisbe listening at the Wall (1836) ; Red Riding Hood and Wolf ; Adoration of Shepherds and Kings ; Undine (1839) ; Elfin Dance (1842) ; Parable of the Sower (1842); Lord's Supper (1844); Christ on the Cross, Entombment, St. Jacob's, Magdeburg ; Adoration of Shepherds, Hed- 222