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(2) Peter Strudel
(b Cles, 1660; d Vienna, 1714). Painter, brother of (1) Paul Strudel. He was registered at the Collegio dei Pittori, Venice, in 1685 and studied with Johann Carl Loth, the leading exponent of the Tenebrist style then dominating Venetian painting. The earliest extant examples of Peter’s work—all of which is in oils on canvas—are secular subjects, for example the Bath of Diana (Munich, Alte Pin.) painted in 1687, for the Elector Palatine, John William, who tried to induce Peter, like his brother Paul, to work at his court. In 1689 he became court painter to Emperor Leopold I. The same year he founded a private academy in Vienna for drawing. The paintings for John William and subsequent religious works, such as paintings for Stiftskirche Garsten (1688) and St Rochus in Vienna (1690), show Peter’s artistic provenance: compositions of figure groups, clouds and lively landscapes with great dynamic depth, a tendency for dramatic emotional expression through strong chiaroscuro and colour effects, spontaneous brushwork (with numerous pentiments) painted alla prima on a ground varying from ochre red to brown-violet, over coarse canvas with frequent twills in the weave—a combination of Venetian Tenebrism with the influence of Luca Giordano, which is evident in the lack of preliminary sketches in Peter’s adaptation of his fa presto technique.
Part of the Strudel family
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