Strub, Peter the Younger (b Veringenstadt; d Messkirch, ?1540).

Brother of (1) Hans Strüb. Younger by almost half a generation than his brother Hans, he was long known as the Master of Messkirch from his most famous ensemble of altarpieces. He is one of the most important and stylistically pure masters of the Late Renaissance in German painting. The evolution of his style indicates a journeyman period in Ulm, with Martin Schaffner, and in Memmingen with Bernhard Strigel. Wing panels from an altarpiece at Talheim, near Tübingen (Stuttgart, Württemberg. Landesmus.) are an early, Late Gothic work with characteristically pale but bright colouring, commissioned c. 1515 by the von Stetten family. Later Strüb worked for the Grafen von Zollern in Sigmaringen, painting Eitel Friedrich III von Zollern (after 1525; Rome, Pin. Vaticana) gazing into thin air and standing between a balustrade and a marble column; the painting was undertaken after the subject’s death at the Battle of Pavia. Other panels at Sigmaringen (Fürst. Hohenzoll. Samml. & Hofbib.) show the influence of Hans Schaufelein (i) in the figures, while the early bright colouring is replaced by duller earth tones.