Karl Stecher

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Karl Stecher
Karl Stecher (1831-1923).jpg
Born(1831-03-05)5 March 1831
Died27 December 1923(1923-12-27) (aged 92)
Known forStained glass windows in Little Church Around the Corner
Movement Realism

Karl Franz Stecher, also known as Charles F. Stecher or Stetcher (5 March 1831 [1] [2] - 27 December 1923) was a German painter.

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Life

Stecher first studied painting and music in Karlsruhe, Germany. [2]  Afterwards he moved to Paris where he did figures for stained glass windows and painted watercolours. [2] Later in life Stecher claimed that in Paris he had been visited by and played organ for Napoleon III, and also had befriended Realist artists like Rosa Bonheur and Jean-François Millet. [3] In 1874 he moved to New York where he designed all the windows for Church of the Transfiguration in Manhattan. [2]  Stecher appears to have worked for lithographic Schumacher & Ettlinger  [ Wikidata ] company. In 1885 a painting executed by Stecher, and designed by Theodore Schumacher became an object of a copyright lawsuit Schumacher v Schwencke. [4] [5] 5 years before his death Stecher moved with his son to Wichita in Kansas, where he continued painting into his 90s. [6] In Wichita he made a reputation as a portrait artist, but also as a painting and book collector with wide interests. [3] He is buried in Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Karl Stecher (1831-1923) - Find a Grave Memorial". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2022-08-14.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Susan V. Craig (2006). Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) (PDF). p. 355. OCLC   779973315.
  3. 1 2 Emery, O. C. (3 July 1921). "Age Does Not Stop Walnut Grove Artist". The Wichita Beacon Sunday Magazine. p. 2.
  4. Bracha, Oren (December 2016). Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790–1909. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN   978-0-521-87766-4.
  5. "Schumacher v Schwencke case" (PDF).
  6. "Karl Stetcher". The Art News. 22 (15): 8. 1924. ISSN   0004-3273. JSTOR   25591357.