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Strudel.
Austrian family of artists. The sculptor (1) Paul Strudel and the painter (2) Peter Strudel, founder of the Kaiserliche Akademie in Vienna, were central figures in the art associated with the great flowering of the Habsburg monarchy after the lifting of the Siege of Vienna (1683), together with their brother Dominik Strudel (1667–1715), who was also a painter. The Strudl, or Strobl, family of sculptors moved from the borders of Bavaria and the North Tyrol c. 1600 to work as wood-carvers making altars in the Val di Non in the South Tyrol. The three brothers, who were all Italian-speakers born in the Tyrolean village of Cles, went on to serve the Imperial house with great distinction, not only in the arts but also in warfare (the capture of Budapest, 1686; the defence of the Tyrol against Bavaria, 1703), and contributed such technical innovations as war machines and hydraulic engineering in the Hungarian silver-mines. They all ended their days in Vienna rewarded with imperial baronetcies (Peter in 1701, Paul and Dominik in 1707). The following members have entries:
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