Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil

Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil
Born(1814-06-26)26 June 1814
Strasbourg, France
Died17 May 1885(1885-05-17) (aged 70)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationAcadémie Suisse
OccupationPainter
Known forStained glass and church decoration
Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Bayonne: Chapelle Saint-Pierre.

Louis Charles Auguste Steinheil (born Strasbourg, 26 June 1814; died Paris, 17 May 1885) was a French painter.

Biography

Louis Steinheil studied with Henri Decaisne and painted in nearly every medium, but gave special attention to glass painting and church decoration. Among his works are Saint Philomela (1841); Mother (1847), Nantes Museum.[1] He and Alexandre-Dominique Denuelle were commissioned to paint the chapel of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, consecrated in September 1865, which was built for the Empress Eugénie beside her Villa Eugénie in Biarritz.[2] In 1876 he was commissioned to execute frescoes in the Strasbourg Cathedral.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Rines 1920.
  2. ^ Granger 2005, p. 237.

References

  • Granger, Catherine (2005). L'Empereur et les arts: la liste civile de Napoléon III. Librairie Droz. ISBN 978-2-900791-71-4. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
  • Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Steinheil, Louis Charles August" . Encyclopedia Americana.


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