Carl Steffeck

Carl Constantin Heinrich Steffeck (4 April 1818, Berlin – 11 July 1890, Königsberg) was a German painter and graphic artist.

In 1837, he entered the master class of horse painter Franz Krüger and later worked in the studios of Carl Joseph Begas.

He went to Paris in 1839, where he spent two months studying with Paul Delaroche and was influenced by the work of Horace Vernet.

His student, Max Liebermann recalled how Steffeck would produce small horse-and-rider portraits, which he sold for six Friedrichsdor each and were taken home by customers while they were still wet.

Among his best-known non-animal works are The Execution of Robert Blum in Brigittenau and a cycle of scenes from Prussian history for the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Königsberg.