{"id":170,"date":"2016-05-05T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2016-05-08T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T14:35:10","slug":"steeles-aspirations-to-train-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/t-c-steele-portrait-of-colonel-elston\/steeles-aspirations-to-train-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Steele&#8217;s Aspirations to Train in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early on in Steele\u2019s life, he aspired to dig deeper and learn more than what was provided to him in his present conditions. While studying in Indiana in the early 1870\u2019s, he admired artists of foreign countries. He believed that the quality and\u00a0prestige of the schools in the United States did not compare to the schools in European\u00a0countries. Countries like Germany, France and Italy all surpassed the US in studying art, and this gave Steele a perpetual drive to study in these countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pinnacle of this desire took place after his 1878 move to the Indianapolis block of Fletcher and Sharpe\u2019s, downtown bankers. Many of the artists he met through them had studied in Europe and presented their experiences with much enthusiasm and importance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About a year later, a man named Herman Lieber presented\u00a0Steele with\u00a0a plan that would take multiple Indiana artists to Europe to study art in Germany for a couple years. Steele grabbed the opportunity, along with a few fellow artists, and obtaining funds and\u00a0pledging future painting to supporters Steele and his family traveled to Munich, where he studied for two years at the Royal Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/t-c-steele-portrait-of-colonel-elston\/\">Back to the main page on\u00a0T.C. Steele,\u00a0Portrait of Colonel Elston II<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/t-c-steele-portrait-of-colonel-elston\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/05\/TC-Steele-Isaac-Elston-II-Detail-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"TC Steele Isaac Elston II Detail\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early on in Steele\u2019s life, he aspired to dig deeper and learn more than what was provided to him in his present conditions. While studying in Indiana in the early 1870\u2019s, he admired artists of foreign countries. He believed that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/art-collection\/t-c-steele-portrait-of-colonel-elston\/steeles-aspirations-to-train-in-germany\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"parent":166,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/323"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/elstoncollection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}