# Amalie von Schintling [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STIELER, Karl Joseph]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The competition between the painters nourished the growth of thematic specialization in the academies. In Munich, the term "Fächler" \(subject specialists\) became current, as painters specialised in landscape, portrait, history, or religious painting. Some fought their way through the fierce competition to become widely celebrated. They include the portrait painter Karl Joseph Stieler, who was commissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria to paint a portrait gallery of the most graceful ladies in the land. The subjects include Nanette Kaula, the 17-year-old daughter of the head of the Jewish community, who was married to a nephew of Heinrich Heine, and Amalie Schintling, who died young. Stieler was not only technically highly accomplished, but has also left a document of the ideal of beauty of his time. ## Related artworks - [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]() - [King Ludwig I in his Coronation Robes]() - [Nanette Heine, née Kaula]() - [Portrait of Prince Karl of Bavaria]() - [Portrait of the Family of Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]() - [Portrait of Therese Alexandra Freifrau von Tettenborn]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()