Auguste Strobl

The daughter of a royal chief accountant, she also appeared in the Gallery of Beauties gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Since Ludwig wanted Strobl's natural beauty to be documented, it was forbidden to subsequently shorten her neck in a painterly manner.

Stieler had to paint her again in 1827; now the painter depicted the young lady facing inwards and looking out of the picture over her left shoulder, which results in an unusual rear view.

[4][5] Both married on January 22, 1831, with the support of Ludwig [6] and Auguste moved in with her husband in the Ergoldsbach forester's house.

The second portrait of Strobl by Stieler has become particularly famous: he shaped the delicate complexion, the fresh look, the sophisticated hairstyle and the white muslin dress of the young Munich woman into a portrait of great grace, which was obviously particularly impressive at the time it was created, so that Stieler painted at least three known versions in 1827 or 1828.

The portrait of Auguste Strobl prompted the comedy poet C. von Ploetz to write a poem entitled "An das Bildbild einer young Frauenzimmer im weissen Kleider" ("An image of a young woman in a white dress"), published in the magazine Flora in 1827.