Strigel, Bernhard#

Strigel, Bernhard, b. Memmingen (Germany), around 1460, d. Memmingen (Germany), before May 4, 1528, painter. Came from an artists´ family, painter at the court of Emperor Maximilian I, produced numerous portraits of the Emperor and his family members (in the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum and elsewhere), partly in official and partly in informal style; also much appreciated as an altar painter. On the occasion of the Habsburg double marriage of two of Maximilian´s grandchildren with Hungarian Princes 1515 and again 1520 came to Vienna to portray the family of the humanist Johannes Cuspinianus (today at Kreuzenstein Castle). One of the leading Swabian masters at the transition from late Gothic to Renaissance.

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