Christopher Paudiß Explained

thumb|Loth und seine Töchter (around 1649, Budapest)

Christoph(er) Paudiß[1] (1630 in Lower Saxony – 1666 in Freising, Upper Bavaria) was a Bavarian Baroque painter and a student of Rembrandt van Rijn.

Life

After working in Stuttgart (1656), Prague, Dresden (1659–60), Vienna and Salzburg, he stayed his last four years in Freising where he worked for Fürstbischof Albrecht Sigismund von Bayern. He was married twice.

Work

His paintings and frescoes show dark pictures of everyday life. The Freisinger Diözesanmuseum has the largest collection of his work (15), others are scattered around Europe.

List of paintings

(incomplete)

Notes

  1. also written: Pautitz, Paudiss or Bauditz (Karl Bosl: Bosls Bayerische Biographie, Regensburg, Pustet, 1983, S. 574), or Christopher Paudiß (Dombergmuseum Freising) http://www.dommuseum-freising.de/m02.htm

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