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3 unusual facts about Auguste Strobl


Auguste Strobl

The daughter of a royal chief accountant, she also appeared in the Gallery of Beauties gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Auguste Strobl (24 June 1807 - 22 January 1871, Passau) was a German beauty of the 19th century.

It is unknown how she came to Ludwig's attention, though he wrote poems to her and had her painted by the court painter Joseph Karl Stieler for his Gallery, but Stieler's first version chose a view that over-emphasised her goose-neck and displeased its commissioner.



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