In 1648, Paul Strudel was born, as would be his younger brothers, Peter and Dominik, in Cles in the Val di Non in the County of Tyrol, where his father Jakob worked as a sculptor.

[1] In 1684, he came to Vienna, where he made three statues for the Prince of Liechtenstein; his high remuneration caused the envy of his German colleagues at that time.

His work marks the transition of Austria to the high baroque; however, Strudel captured the style of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

The most important works of Paul Strudel are the large statues from white marble for the ancestor gallery of the Habsburgs.

The German building master Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt from Genoa was preferred over the Strudel brothers.