About Sigismund Streit
Lived 1687 – 1775 (aged 88). Sigismund Streit was a German art collector and merchant.
Sigismund Streit (13 April 1687 – 20 December 1775) was a Kingdom of Prussia 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 as foundation to institutions in the Holy Roman Empire, in particular 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.
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Who was Sigismund Streit?
German art collector
When was Sigismund Streit born?
Sigismund Streit was born on 13 April 1687 in Berlin.
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Sigismund Streit died on 20 December 1775 in Padua.
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Sigismund Streit was an art collector and merchant.
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Sigismund Streit was German.
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