# Portrait of Dr. Georg Thannstetter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STRIGEL, Bernhard]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 42 x 29 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Dr. Georg Thannstetter c. 1515 Oil on panel, 42 x 29 cm Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna Dr. Georg Thannstetter was a medical doctor, mathematician and cartographer, and he held a chair at the University of Vienna. He had been personal physician to the Emperor Maximilian since 1510. The companion-piece of the painting is the portrait of his wife Martha Werusin \(or Merusin\). The background forms a uniform space in the two paintings showing that they belong together. ## Related artworks - [Christ Taking Leave of His Mother]() - [Disrobing of Christ]() - [Holy Family]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Noble Man]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of Conrad Rehlinger and his Children]() - [Portrait of Martha Thannstetter \(née Werusin\)]() - [Portrait of Sybilla von Freyberg \(born Gossenbrot\)]() - [Portrait of the Cuspinian Family]() - [St Ladislas Presents Wladislav II and his Sons to the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [St Ladislas Presents Wladislav II and his Sons to the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()