Peter Strudel

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Putto with flower thread and banner , 1698/1699, Belvedere , Vienna
Two putti with flowers, fruits and a banner , 1698/1699, Belvedere , Vienna

Peter Strudel or Strudl or Peter Freiherr von Strudel (* around 1660 in Cles ( Trentino ), † October 4, 1714 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor and painter. In Vienna he was a court painter. In Austria, his work marks the transition from the late Renaissance to the Baroque .

Life

Between 1676 and 1686 Strudel came to the court in Vienna and, together with his brother Paul Strudel, got a job as an imperial court and chamber painter. Around 1690 he bought a piece of land in the suburbs on the "back of the Schottenpoint" from the "western imperial Hatschieren-Rottmeister" Romanus Bernhard Tschagon and his wife Marie Polixena. There he had the Strudelhof built.

Founder of the oldest art academy in Central Europe

In 1688 he founded a private art school there, the first general training center for artists outside the guild regulations, based on the model of the Accademia di San Luca (1593) and the Paris Académie Royale (1648). State support payments can be proven for this school from 1692 onwards. In 1701 Strudel ( Praefectus Academiae Nostrae ) was appointed imperial baron. At the request of Emperor Joseph I , this school was run as the Imperial Academy from 1705 . However, the academy's activities ended with the death of its founder. In 1726, however, Jacob van Schuppen re-established it as the “Kk Court Academy of Painters, Sculptors and Architecture”, which still exists today. Peter Strudel is considered the founder of the oldest art academy in Central Europe ( Academy of Fine Arts Vienna ).

Palais Strudlhof

A year before Strudel died, the Strudelhof was used as a plague house, where those suffering from the disease were cared for and included in the Kontumaz Rayon . After several changes of ownership, the house was demolished in 1795 and 1873. The newly built and still existing house kept the name Palais Strudelhof (1090 Vienna, Strudelhofgasse 10). In 1914, the ultimatum to Serbia, which triggered the First World War , was signed in it and in 1970 the disarmament talks between the USSR and the USA took place in it ( SALT I ). Was converted to it in 1999 to today's conference palace, it was considered Embassy of Qatar used.

Habsburg ancestral gallery

Similar to the work of his brother Paul, Peter Strudel was also caught up in the style of Gian Lorenzo Bernini . Most of the statues were created by Peter Strudel together with his brother Paul. After the death of his brother Paul (1708), the continuation of the work on the Habsburg ancestral gallery was entrusted to him. Until his death he created fifteen statues, some of them in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library in the Hofburg . Peter Strudel died on October 4, 1714 in Vienna at the age of about 55.

In the 9th district of Vienna, the Strudlhofgasse in front of his property, the Strudlhofstiege in this street, made famous by Heimito von Doderer 's novel of the same name, and the Palais Strudlhof remind of him.

Works

  • 1695 - painting "Heiliger Antonius", parish church Kaiserebersdorf , Vienna
  • 1695 - painting "Saint Franz Xaver", parish church Kaiserebersdorf, Vienna
  • 1695 - painting "Saint Sebastian", parish church Kaiserebersdorf, Vienna
  • 1688 - Altarpieces in Garsten
  • 1690 - Altarpieces for the side chapels in the Klosterneuburg collegiate church
  • around 1695 - painting Glory of Saint Laurentius , since 1872 in the Währinger parish church in Vienna
  • 1699 - Altarpieces in the Rochus Church in Vienna
  • 1700 - Statues of the Habsburg rulers in the domed room of the national library
  • 1700 - Statues of the Habsburg rulers in Laxenburg Castle
  • around 1706 - Altar panel in the Würzburg Cathedral for the Bruno Altar ( coat donation from St. Martin ), which, however , burned on March 16, 1945 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 646 and 948.
personal data
SURNAME Strudel, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strudl, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Cles ( Trentino )
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1714
Place of death Vienna