- Peter Strudel
Peter Strudel or Peter Strudl (c.
1660 -4 October 1714 ) was anAustria nsculptor and painter. His work forms the transition of Austria to the highbaroque style.Strudel was born in
Cles ,Trentino .Between 1676 (when he was 16 years old) and 1686, Peter Strudel came to the
Hofburg inVienna and, together with his brotherPaul Strudel , obtained a position as painter to the Imperial Court. Around 1690, he bought a property in the suburbs from the imperial "gewesten Hatschieren-Rott" masterRomanus Bernhard Tschagon and his wife Marie Polixena. There he built the "Strudelhof " mansion, where he founded a private art school in 1688. This was the first general training centre for artists outside thepainters guild , after the model of theAccademia di San Luca (1593) and that of the French "Académie Royale" ("Académie de peinture et de sculpture ", founded in 1648 inParis ). The school has been shown to have received government subsidies from 1692.In 1701, Peter Strudel ("Praefectus Academiae Nostrae") became Reichsfreiherr and was appointed the director of the landscape academy. At the behest of
Emperor Joseph I, this school, in 1705, became "Kayserliche Academie". However, the activity of the academy temporarily ended with the death of its founder, when Strudel died in 1714.In 1726, however, a re-establishment took place through Jakob van Schuppen as "K.k. Hofacademie of the painters, sculptor and architecture", which still exists. Peter Strudel is considered as a founder of the oldest art academy of central Europe, the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . One year before the death of Strudel, the "Strudelhof" included a plague house, where those afflicted by the epidemic were treated and quarantined.After several ownership changes between 1795 and 1873, the house was torn down. The newly built house still kept the name "
Palace Strudlhof " (Strudelhofgasse 10). The ultimatum to Serbia in 1914, which led toWorld War I was signed in this house, and in 1970, the disarmament talks between theUSSR andthe USA of (SALT I ) took place there.Until the Strudelhof was converted in 1999 to its modern rôle as a conference centre, it was used as the
embassy ofQatar . Similar to the work of his brother Paul, the work of Peter Strudel also captured the style of sculptorGian Lorenzo Bernini . Peter Strudel as well as his brother Paul created most of the statues.Peter Strudel died in Vienna at the age of approximately 55 years. He is still commemorated by the street name "Strudlhofgasse" in
Alsergrund where his house used to stand. TheStrudlhofstiege staircase in this lane, together with the "Palais Strudlhof " earned fame through the book "Die Strudlhofstiege" byHeimito von Doderer .Works
* Altar piece in Garsten (1688)
* Altar piece in "Stift Klosterneuburg "monastery (1690)
* Altar piece of the "Rochuskirche" in Vienna (1699)
* Statues ofHabsburg rulers in the dome area of the "Nationalbibliothek" (1700)
* Statues ofHabsburg rulers in theSchloss Laxenburg (1700)References
*cite book |author=Koller, Manfred |title=Die Brüder Strudel: Hofkünstler und Gründer der Wiener Kunstakademie "("The Strudel brothers: court artists and founders of the Viennese Academy of Arts")" |publisher=Innsbruck : Tyrolia |year=1993 |id=ISBN 3-7022-1830-0
*German|Peter Strudel|2006-11-15 External links
*worldcat id|lccn-n94-55677
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