Sigismund Streit

Sigismund Streit (13 April 1687 – 20 December 1775) was an Electorate of Brandenburg merchant and art patron of the 18th century in Venice.

Sigismund Streit
Streit by Jacopo Amigoni, 1739
Born	13 April 1687 Berlin, Brandenburg
Died	20 December 1775(1775-12-20) (aged 88) Padua, 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.

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.