Auguste Strobl

Auguste Strobl ( * June 24, 1807; † January 22, 1871 in Passau ) was one of King Ludwig I gave her rapturous poems Bavarian Beauty and the wife of the forester of Ergoldsbach.

Life

The daughter of a royal Bavarian chief accountant aroused for unknown reason the attention of King Ludwig I, who wrote some fanciful poems on them. As he was planning to build a collection of portraits of beautiful women of all classes, which you could encounter in his city of Munich on the road, he was Auguste Strobl in December 1826 painting by his court painter Joseph Karl Stieler.

However, the result displeased the king. Stieler had chosen a view that too much stressed Strobl gooseneck. As Ludwig Strobl's natural beauty wanted to have documented a subsequent picturesque shortening her neck banned. Stieler they had to paint again, but this time in a rather uncomfortable position. The neck was too long also somewhat obscured by a chain. Ludwig, who had briefly thought to include both pictures in his gallery of beauties, opted for the second version. The first image was lost. Maybe it gave Louis the Strobl. It appeared only in 1976 again on the art market and was purchased by the Residenz Museum in Munich.

Auguste Strobl married in 1831 with the support of Louis the forester Hilber of Ergoldsbach and became a mother of five children. The King visited them in 1835 again in the forester and wrote on this occasion one last poem on it. Maybe he brought her on this occasion, the first image as a gift with, but this is not proven.

In the years 1836 to 1850 she lived with her family in Schoenberg in the Bavarian Forest. There in the Pfarrmatriklen also King Ludwig is registered as a godparent of the Ludwig Hilber. But He was not there in person, but was represented. Also over the future life of Auguste Strobl, married Hilber, nothing was known. She died in 1871 in Passau.