STEINLE, stin'lc, EDUARD VON ( 1810-86). A German historical painter, born in Vienna, the son of an engraver. First instructed at the Academy, he then became a pupil of Kupel wieser. and from 1828 to 1834 worked in Rome under the influence of Veit and Overbeek. In 1843 he settled at Frankfort, where lie had been commissioned to paint "The Judgment of Salo mon" (1844), and the portraits of Albrecht I. and Ferdinand III. for the Kaisersaal in the Ramer, and in 1850 was appointed professor at the Stadel Institute. There Frederick Leighton was among his pupils. Steinle's creative sphere embraces with equal command subjects of pro foundly religious aspect and scenes of the mer riest playful humor. His works are distinguished by finished grace and beauty of form, masterly technique in drawing, and inexhaustible power of invention. After executing, at Cologne, the "Angel Choirs" (1844) , in the cathedral, a nil the frescoes illustrative of 'The Ar tistic and Cultural Development of the City" (1860-63), in the staircase of the museum, he painted in seven scenes the "Immacu late Conception" (1865-66), in Saint Mary's at Aix-la-Chapelle, designed mural decorations for Saint .Egidins at Miinster. and frescoed the
apsis of Cathedral (1877-80). In Frankfort lie designed and in part executed the entire decoration of the cathedral, also the car toons for some of the stained-glass windows, be sides many others for churches in Cologne, Treves, FOrth, and Vienna. His oil paintings, of rare coloristic charm, include "The Visit of Mary to Elizabeth" (1848) and "Saint Luke Painting the Virgin," both in the Karlsruhe Gallery; "Sib ylla Tiburtina" (1848, Stiidel Institute, Frank fort) : "Madonna," altar-piece (Saint Boniface, Wiesbaden) ; "The Warder" (1S58); "Loreley," "Adam and Eve," and "Tartini Playing on a Tower at Padua" (all in the Schack Gallery, Munich) ; and "Madonna in a Garden" (1884, National Gallery, Berlin). He also composed many cycles in water colors and sepia, such as the "Legend of Saint Eupbrosine," Brentano's "Rheinmiirchen," several from Shakespeare's plays, and "Parsifal" (Pinakothek, Munich). Consult: \Vurzbach, Ein Madonnennialer unscrer Zeit (Vienna, 1879) ; Valentin, Eduard von Steinle (Leipzig, 1887) ; and iteichensperger, Erinnerungen (Frankfort, 1887).