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 STEFFAN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, born at Wädenswyl, Switzerland, Dec. 13, 1815. Landscape painter, pupil of the Munich Academy under Cornelius, after studying lithography. Devoted himself to landscape in 1841, taking Rottmann for model. Made excursions to Bavarian and Swiss Alps, Upper Italy, and with Friedrich Voltz to Paris. 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, Zürich Gallery; Reichenbach Fall (1853); Among Higher Alps, New Pinakothek, Munich; Four Seasons in four Swiss Landscapes (1857); View on Vierwaldstätter Lake (1860); Mountain Brook; Chillon on Lake of Geneva (1862); Waterfall in Norway, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Autumn in South Germany (1864), Königsberg Museum; Valley of the Elm in Canton Glarus (1865); View in Bavarian 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 Rosenlaui Glacier (1885).—Müller, 503; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 853.

STEFFECK, KARL, born in Berlin, April 4, 1818. Animal painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Krüger and Begas, of Delaroche in Paris in 1839, and studied in Italy in 1840-42. Began with animal pictures, but soon combined history and genre with them; paints also good portraits, especially equestrian. Director of Königsberg 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), Königsberg Museum; Capture of a Standard by Margrave Albrecht Achilles (1848), Spaniels 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); Catching Wild Horses; King Wilhelm at Sadowa (1867), Royal Palace, Berlin; Scene in Anteroom, Ravené Gallery, ib.; String of Horses (1872); Racing (1874); Gypsy Boy riding through a Wood (1876); Stag Hunt in Grünewald, Meet, Stettin Museum; Portraits of Emperor Wilhelm, Crown Prince, and Field Marshal Manteuffel. In fresco: Episode after Battle of Sedan (1884), Arsenal, Berlin.—Andresen, v. 104; Jordan (1885), ii. 220; Müller, 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.

STEINBRÜCK, EDUARD, born at Magdeburg, May 3, 1803, died at Landeck, Silesia, Feb. 3, 1882. History and genre painter, pupil of Wach in Berlin in 1822-29; went to Düsseldorf in 1829, then to Rome, and returned to Berlin in 1833. After a long residence in Düsseldorf, settled in Berlin in 1846, but retired to Landeck, Silesia, in 1876. Member of Berlin Academy 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; Madonna and Child; Children Bathing (1834), Mary among the Elves (1840), National Gallery, Berlin; replica of latter, Raczynski Gallery, ib.; St. Geneviève (1835), Darmstadt 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