Sigismund Streit
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Sigismund Streit was a prominent German merchant and art patron of the 17th century in Venice. Born in Berlin in 1687, he came to Venice in 1709, where he accumulated substantial wealth. He died childless and bequeathed his collection to institutions in Germany, including the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin. He came to own paintings by Canaletto, Antoine Pesne, Jacopo Amigoni, Francesco Zuccarelli, and Giuseppe Nogari. He was a contemporary of another patron Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg.
- Haskell, Francis (1993). "Chapter 8", Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy, 1980, Yale University Press, p 315-316.
