Brothers Schiestl

The Schiestl brothers were three brothers who were active as visual artists in the Franconian - Bavarian region at the beginning of the 20th century . Their mostly independent, occasionally jointly created work primarily takes up Christian themes. The three brothers were born as the sons of a carver , Matthäus Schiestl the Elder (1834–1915), who lives in the Zillertal . In 1873 the family moved to Würzburg .

• Heinz Schiestl , actually Heinrich , (1864–1940), sculptor and graphic artist
• Matthäus Schiestl (1869–1939), painter and graphic artist
• Rudolf Schiestl (1878–1931), painter and draftsman

literature

• Richard Braungart : The three Schiestl brothers. Hugo Schmidt, Munich 1923, DNB 572510063 .
• Hanswernfried Muth, Karl Heinz Schreyl: The Schiestl Brothers: an artist family from Franconia. ( Mainfränkische Hefte 68). Friends of Mainfränkischer Art and History, Würzburg 1977, DNB 780529251 .