STRIGEL, Bernhard
(b. 1460, Memmingen, d. 1528, Memmingen)

Portrait of Sybilla von Freyberg (born Gossenbrot)

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Wood, 61 x 35,8 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Swabian portraitist and altarpiece painter, pupil of his sculptor father Ivo Strigel. Strigel worked in Ulm, Augsburg and Nürnberg. He was a portraitist of the Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) from 1507. His portraits are very effectual although lack the psychoanalytical elements.