Peter Candid

Peter Candid (* 1548 in Bruges, † 1628 in Munich, also Pietro Candid; actually Pieter de Witte ) was a Flemish painter and printmaker.

Since 1568 he lived with his father, the bronze caster Elias de Witte in Florence. He was a pupil of Giorgio Vasari and worked from 1575 for the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando I de ' Medici. The connection to Vasari gave him the opportunity to cooperate in the execution of the Sala Regia in the Vatican and at the dome of the cathedral at Florence. 1586 he was appointed by Duke Wilhelm V of the Munich court and lived from then intermittently until his death in Bavaria. For William's successor Maximilian I. He painted 1611-1619 from several rooms of the Munich Residenz. In the Munich period also fall designs for tapestries for the 1604 Founded in Munich in carpet manufacture. These drawings were engraved by G. Amling and JA Zimmermann in copper. The University Library has signed Salzburg leaves ( P. Cand. Pinxit ).

Next, among others, two porches and a Madonna on the front of the Munich Residence, the fountain with the statue of Otto von Wittelsbach in the front yard of the residence, the grave monument of Emperor Louis in the Frauenkirche and the Madonna on the Marian column in Munich designed by Candid.

Peter Candid has also numerous wall and ceiling paintings in the Old Palace Schleissheim and a series of altarpieces for churches in Munich, Freising, Augsburg and other places painted under which the Assumption of Mary is considered the most important in the Frauenkirche in Munich.

In Munich -Giesing is named after him with Candid Street, Candid Candid bridge and tunnel an important section of the Middle Ring. This also applies to the Candidplatz with its metro station.

His bust -up took place in the hall of fame in Munich.