Bartholomäus Strobel the Younger (1591-after 1647)

• Was a Baroque painter from Silesia.
• Strobel was born to a Protestant German family in Wrocław.
• Bartholomäus the Elder was a painter.
• The Father ran a workshop where his son Bartholomeus the Younger was trained.
• Bartholomeus the Younger completed a five-year apprenticeship in 1602, when the workshop had nine apprentices. 

• By 1610 Strobel was working in Prague.

• When Bartholomäus the Elder died in 1612, Bartholomeus the Younger was left 20 thalers and items including a painting by Bartholomeus Spranger, the court painter to Rudolf II.

• In 1618, in Danzig (Gdańsk), he received a "Freibrief" from the Emperor, enabling him to work anywhere in the Holy Roman Empire without the permission of the local guild; the award was repeated in 1624.

• The early years of the Thirty Years War brought instability to Silesia.

• In 1632 Stobel painted the portrait of the invading Prince Ulrik of Denmark (1611–1633).

• When an outbreak of plague added to the desperate situation in Breslau, Strobel decided to leave Silesia for Poland, and settled in Gdańsk in 1634.

• King Władysław IV Vasa of Poland in 1639 appointed Strobel court painter.

 • In 1624 he married Magdalena Mitwentz, daughter of a merchant.

• In 1643, after a serious illness, he converted to Roman Catholicism with the Jesuits at Toruń.

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