Oil/canvas, 45 x 39,5 cm, lo. ri. monogr. C. St., on the stretcher on fragment of a label inscribed Steffeck. - German animal and landscape painter. S. studied at the Berlin Academy as a student of F. Krüger and C. J. Begas. In 1839-42 he traveled through France and Italy. In 1859 he became a professor in Berlin, in 1880 in Königsberg. Among his most famous students were M. Liebermann and H. von Marées. Mus.: Berlin, Potsdam a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker. Artist or Maker Steffeck, Carl Notes Oil/canvas, 45 x 39,5 cm, lo. ri. monogr. C. St., on the stretcher on fragment of a label inscribed Steffeck.