Strigel (artist family)

The Strigel family was a late Gothic artist family who created and lived in Memmingen . Their work and influence is summarized together with the artist family Sichelbein under the term Memminger Schule .

The following people are known:

Hans Strigel the Elder (first document 1430, † 1462), painter
1. Ivo Strigel (* 1430; † 1516), sculptor
  1. Bernhard Strigel (* around 1460; † May 4, 1528), painter and house and court painter of Emperor Maximilian I , most important representative of the family
2. Hans Strigel the Younger (* 1450; † 1479), sculptor

Johann Strigel the Elder (document from 1442 for the main altar St. Bartholomä in Zell near Oberstaufen), sculptor and painter
Michael Strigel (around 1445, † around 1519), painter
Claus Strigel (* before 1500, † after 1500), painter (according to ADB probably another son of Ivo Strigel and brother of Bernhard)

The family then died out, or at least their traces are lost.

The family of painters is dedicated to a museum in Memmingen with an exhibition, the Strigel Museum in the Antoniterhaus .

Another possible non-artistic branch is as follows, according to ADB:

Ivo Strigel (* 1431; † 1516), doctor, studied with Melanchthon
1. Viktorin / Victorinus Strigel , (* December 16 or 26, 1524 in Kaufbeuren; † June 26, 1569 in Heidelberg), Lutheran theologian and humanist, university professor in Wittenberg, Jena, Leipzig and Heidelberg

literature

Wilhelm Schmidt: Strigel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 589 f.
Enikő Zsellér: The Strigel family of artists. Studies of late Gothic painting in Memmingen. Michael Imhof-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0563-9 .

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