[1][3] She started her studies in 1922 under Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich, and later with Adolph Goldschmidt at the University of Berlin.
[1] By 1925, she was in Göttingen working on writing her dissertation on Andrea Orcagna under Georg Vitzthum von Eckstädt [de], which was published in 1929.
[1] She started her work on volume 4 of the book series Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting.
His project then moved to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, where Steinweg was appointed a co-author of the work.
[1] Steinweg died on 10 June 1972, aged 69, in Meerbusch, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.