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(1) Paul Strudel
(b Cles, 1648; d Vienna, 1708). Sculptor. He studied with Josse de Corte in Venice until the latter’s death in 1676. His first independent works were for the Capella del Crocifisso, Trent Cathedral (1685). In 1687 the Elector Palatine John William, brother-in-law to Emperor Leopold I, attempted unsuccessfully to persuade Paul to work at his court in Düsseldorf. In 1688, against competition from Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Mathias Rauchmiller and others, Paul assumed direction of the sculpture for the Dreifaltigkeitssäule in the Graben in Vienna, a monument proposed by the Emperor during the Plague of 1679. He arranged for the buying of marble for it in Salzburg; made the wooden model for the Holy Trinity group, which was worked in copper by Johann Kilian in Augsburg and then fire-gilded; and expanded the iconographic programme with the image of the Emperor kneeling over the group depicting Faith Putting an End to the Plague. His is the only signature appearing repeatedly on the 18 m-high monument, which was to be widely copied. The models for his Plague group can be found in de Corte’s high altar at S Maria della Salute, Venice, and Pierre Legros’s work for the S Ignatius altar in the Gesù, Rome.
Part of the Strudel family
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