Portrait of Augusta Strobl by Artist Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858)

 

 Portrait of Augusta Strobl

Augusta Strobl was to married Hilber (1807-1871). The portrait was painted in 1827 by Artist Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858). 

 Josef Karl Stieler was a German portrait painter.

 Stieler was born into the family of August Friedrich Stieler (1736-1789), a seal-carver at the Electoral Mint in Mainz. The Stieler family was known as a family of artists, among whom were painters of coats of arms and seals, engravers and painters.

 Stieler made his first steps in art under the guidance of his father, who died in 1789. In the following years, Stieler successfully educated himself in pastel and miniature. At the age of 17, Stieler undertook a trip to Würzburg. There, for almost two years, he was a student of the court painter Christoph Fesel, who in turn studied with Anton Raphael Mengs. Fesel Stieler studied oil painting. Then Stieler went to study at the Vienna Academy of Arts under Heinrich Friedrich Füger and made his debut as a portrait painter.

 In 1805-1806, Shtiler spent at the courts of Budapest and Warsaw, where he was simply inundated with orders. In 1807 he accepted an offer to move to Paris and work with François Gérard. In 1808 he returned to Germany and settled as an independent artist in Frankfurt am Main.

 King Maximilian I invited Stieler to his court in Munich, which became home for Stieler. He was appointed by the king to the court painters.

 For King Ludwig I, Stieler painted the famous Gallery of Beauties in Nymphenburg Palace.

 In 1824, Stieler co-founded the Munich Art Association. In 1833 he married the poet Josephine von Miller. They had three children

 Stieler spent the last years of his life in Tegernsee, where on the Leeberghang hill he built himself a summer house on a land donated in 1829 by the king.

 The king saw Augusta at the city ball. She, the daughter of the chief royal accountant, looked like a fairy in her puffy-sleeved muslin dress, with a pink-and-red scarf around her thin waist, and a bow of the same color in her brown hair.

 During the dance, King Ludwig said to the girl: “Dear Augusta, you just have to wish, and I will fulfill your every desire ...” The beauty answered without hesitation: “Your Majesty, promote the assistant forester Hilber. He is my fiancé."

 In any other country, under another king, this assistant forester would have been appointed the next day to guard the farthest corner in the farthest forest of the kingdom. But the king of Bavaria appointed the groom chief forester in Ergoldsbach. To this day, this is a nature protection zone, in a wonderful forest region in the Danube watershed.

 

"Portrait of Augusta Strobl" , by Artist Joseph Karl Stieler (1781-1858)