Attribution To Christoph Paudiss (1625-1666) “the Anxious Thinker”, 17th Century

Attribution to Christoph Paudiss (1625-1666) "Anxious Thinker" 17th Century

Dutch School, 17th Century
Oil on canvas mounted on panel
Height: 53.0 cm, width: 47.5 cm without frame
63cm x 57 cm with frame

Christopher Paudiss (Lower Saxony, 1630 - Freising (Upper Bavaria), 1666) was a German Baroque painter, a student in Amsterdam of Rembrandt van Rijn.

After working in Stuttgart (1656), Prague, Dresden (1659-1660), Vienna and Salzburg, he spent his last four years in Freising, where he worked for Archbishop Albrecht Sigismund von Bayern.

He married twice.

Throughout his life he faced financial difficulties.

His oil and fresco paintings show dark images of everyday life. His genre paintings, rural stories and still lifes are famous; he also painted portraits. The Diocesan Museum in Freisinger has the largest collection of his work (15 in total); other works are scattered throughout Europe.