Sigismund Streit

Sigismund Streit by Jacopo Amigoni.

Sigismund Streit (13 April 1687 – in Berlin; 20 December 1775 in Padua) was a prominent German merchant and art patron of the 18th century in Venice.

Life

Born in Berlin, he came to Venice in 1709, where he accumulated substantial wealth. He died childless and bequeathed his collection to institutions in Germany, including the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin. He came to own paintings by Canaletto, Antoine Pesne, Jacopo Amigoni, Francesco Zuccarelli, and Giuseppe Nogari. He was a contemporary of another patron Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg.

External links

• Literature by and about Sigismund Streit in the German National Library catalogue
• BZ: Sebastian Preuss: Ein Berliner in Venedig: Die Gemäldegalerie erinnert an den Canaletto-Sammler Sigismund Streit. Als Preußen die Republik loben musste

References

• Haskell, Francis (1993). "Chapter 8". Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy. 1980. Yale University Press. pp. 315–316.