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440: 152: 122: 160: 25: 216:, where the prince-bishop recommended him to the court in Vienna. During his stay in Breslau he provided the sculptures on the high altar of Heinrichau Abbey (now Henryków). He also started as a designer sketching cartouches, garlands and tendrils. 338:, close to Vienna, although the level of his contribution here has been disputed. This church was the first building north of the Alps to contain swung façade elements characteristic of the High Baroque. It was built between 1693 and 1703 by 402:: the high altar (created by the sculptors J. F. Caspar and G. Niedermayr) and the entire interior (1699–1704); pulpit (1706) (this work is considered as the first High Baroque decoration in Austria with a stylistic and iconographic unity); 364:
Around this period Steinl seems largely to have ceased his direct participation in his sculpture workshop, but he still produced the occasional piece, as attested by the statues for the crypt altar of the
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in Vienna (c. 1715). He also continued to work as imperial ivory engraver until at least 1712, producing two further major works : the equestrian statuette of
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From the 1690s Steinl also directed an important sculpture workshop in Vienna that produced many religious objects, among them the following:
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in Vienna: the pulpit, side altars, pews and confessionals (1726) (he had already designed the dome of this church in 1715-16);
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Steinl also created many altars, pulpits and portals in churches in Vienna and other places in Austria, such as
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and probably trained as a craftsman and artist in Austria, although he may have learned to sculpt in the
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and continued between 1703 and 1724 by Steinl. The rich Baroque façade of the Carmelite church in
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He was definitely employed in the 1670s as a sculptor in Leubus Abbey (now Lubiąż) in the
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Among Steinl's later creations as architect were the tower of the Augustine church at
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High altar of the parish and pilgrimage church of Maria Hietzing in Vienna (1698)
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some of these designs are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
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He was one of the first to use the Late Baroque style, in the manner of
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has one of his earliest identified sculptures, an ivory statuette of a
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painter, architect and designer, and one of the country's best known
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After being appointed imperial engineer for buildings and gardens (
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Around 1688, Steinl became more interested in architecture. The
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Steinl directed this workshop till 1682, when he moved to
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tusk (c. 1688-1690); and the ivory equestrian statues of
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Gutenstein has some wooden statues carved by Steinl
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A table-top sized statue in ivory of a mounted figure. The horse is reared-backward, trampling a supine figure representing the "horrors of war."
Austrian
Baroque
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt


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Victoria and Albert Museum
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Lower Silesian Voivodeship
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