Georg Strobel (painter)

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Self-portrait 1791, City Museum Schwäbisch Gmünd

Johann Georg Strobel (born April 17, 1735 in Wallerstein ; † May 24, 1792 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ) was a German painter, draftsman, graphic artist and drawing teacher who mainly worked in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

life and work

Strobel's mother died in 1740, whereupon his father, a sales representative, married a second time. Strobel received his first artistic training from Anton Joseph von Prenner , who, like him, came from Wallerstein. Nothing is known about further artistic training.

Around 1760 Strobel moved to Schwäbisch Gmünd and lived there in Rinderbachergasse. On September 1, 1763 he received citizenship. From the beginning he received portraits from patrician families such as Debler, Stahl and Storr. In addition, he subsequently portrayed the mayor of Gmünd.

In 1768 Johann Georg Strobel and Juliane Seyboldt married. The marriage remained childless. His wife also worked as a painter.

In 1776 he was appointed to the newly founded drawing school as "drawing master and instructor". On June 1, 1776 Strobel started teaching with about eight citizens' sons and two students from the orphanage. The number of students grew rapidly as a result.

After Strobel's death, on July 8, 1797, Juliana Strobel married Franz Anton Krabacher , who had previously been a student of Strobel and took over his workshop after his death.

The importance of Strobel's work

Strobel was mainly active as a portrait and church painter in Schwäbisch Gmünd. He created around 100 portraits on private commissions. Perhaps he also used staff and talented students from his drawing school to complete the painting. In addition, drawings and etchings were created.

Within Strobel's oeuvre, his portraits of Gmünd citizens are certainly the most significant. From an artistic point of view, Strobel's works are of a high quality, but without setting their own accents. He always stays within the ideas and wishes for representation of his clients. The portraits gain cultural and individual historical significance through the props and status symbols with which Strobel equips the people. For the region around Schwäbisch Gmünd he can be seen as a "painting chronicler".

Works

Around 60 portrait paintings and more than 50 drawings are in the possession of the Museum im Prediger in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Public contracts
Throughout his life Strobel received several public contracts, which mainly related to churches and office buildings. The following work can be verified today:

  • In 1764 he created two altarpieces for the Franciscan Church in Schwäbisch Gmünd.
  • Around 1770 a 14-part way of the cross was built for the Jakobuskirche in Bargau .
  • In 1772 he worked again for the Franciscan Church and created 14 pictures of the Stations of the Cross.
  • In 1773 he painted a painting with St. Francis ("Third Order Image") for the Unterböbingen church.
  • In 1775 Strobel took care of the artistic renewal of the big old hunger cloth in the Heilig-Kreuz-Münster .
  • In 1784 he painted a picture of the congregation for the Johanniskirche in Schwäbisch Gmünd .
  • In 1785 he created the gilding of the clock panel at the town hall in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

There is also a painting from 1775 for the Heilig-Kreuz-Münster, which shows the half-portrait of a man with two ears of corn. This work can be assigned to Strobel, although this, in contrast to the works mentioned above, has not been clarified beyond doubt.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1914 Schwäbisch Gmünd.
  • 2001 “The Baroque Portrait. Johann Georg Strobel ”, Museum im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd.

literature

  • Strobel, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 32 : Stephens – Theodotos . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1938, p. 195 .
  • Monika Boosen, Gabriele Holthuis: The portrait in the baroque. Johann Georg Strobel. Painting and graphics. Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2001.
  • Pastor Fischer: The image of the third order in the church in Unterböbingen. In: Gmünder Heimatblätter. Volume 10, No. 3 (March 1937), pp. 38-41.
  • Hermann Kissling : The late splendor of the imperial city and its painter. Johann Georg Strobel's position in regional art history and its significance for Gmünd. In: Rems newspaper . April 25, 2001, p. 20.
  • Bruno Klaus : Gmünder artist. II. Painter. Addendum to the builders. In: Württemberg quarterly books for regional history. V. year; Stuttgart, Kohlhammer, 1896, p. 320 (No. 9).
  • Walter Klein : Johann Michael Keller. His work and his collaborators [Gmünder Art Volume III], Stuttgart, Greiner & Pfeiffer, 1923, pp. 129–136.
  • Bernhard Kraus: Excellent Gmünder (continued). In: Gmünder Heimatblätter. Volume 3, No. 4/5 (April / May 1930), p. 27.
  • Hartmut Müller: piety, frescoes and filigree. Cultural life in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Stadtarchiv Schwäbisch Gmünd (ed.): History of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 245-264, here: 262.
  • Gert K. Nagel : Swabian artist lexicon, art & antiques. 1986, p. 118.
  • Helmut Ohnewald , Klaus Jürgen Herrmann : If the stones could talk ... historical people in Gmünd, from Gmünd, about Gmünd. Schwäbisch Gmünd, Remsdruck, 1986, pp. 59-64.

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Strobel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Boosen, Gabriele Holthuis: The portrait in the baroque. Johann Georg Strobel. Painting and graphics. 2001, pp. 13, 16, 19-20.
  2. ↑ This is referred to in a copy of the “marriage agreement” (July 8, 1797) between Juliane Strobel and her second husband Franz Anton Krabacher, which is in the Schwäbisch Gmünd city archive.
  3. ↑ Monika Boosen, Gabriele Holthuis: The portrait in the baroque. Johann Georg Strobel. Painting and graphics. 2001, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Hermann Kissling says: “It should not go unmentioned that Strobel's pictures not only show quality differences, but are also not free from distortions. However, drawing defects are found less in the early than in the later works. Accordingly, journeymen are likely to have been at work here. […] It is possible that Strobel also used talented students whom he trained in the drawing school ”(Kissling: The late splendor of the imperial city and its painter… 2001, p. 20).
  5. ↑ “The painter [ie JG Strobel] was not part of the artistic avant-garde of the time. We do not see his portrait art on the same level as that of the Württemberg court painters at that time […] ”(Kissling: The late splendor of the imperial city and its painter… 2001, p. 20.)
    Monika Boosen, Gabriele Holthuis: The portrait in the baroque. Johann Georg Strobel. Painting and graphics. 2001, pp. 6-7.
personal data
SURNAME Strobel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strobel, Johann Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, graphic artist and drawing teacher who mainly worked in Schwäbisch Gmünd
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallerstein
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1792
Place of death Schwäbisch Gmünd