Biographical Timeline
1601/02 born in Weilheim, forty kilometres south-west of Munich, the son of Clement Petle, a cabinetmaker.
Prior to 1620 Apprenticed to Bartholomäus Steinle Weilheim a local carver.
Around 1620 Studied in Munich under Christoph Angermayr where he is thought to have first carved ivory.
1620/1625 Travelled to Antwerp where he became friends with both Peter Paul Rubens and van Dyck. Later he went on to, Paris, Rome and Genoa.
1625 The "Magdalena am Kreuzesstamm" in the Niedermünster at Regensburg
1625 Established himself in Augsburg, Bavaria where he created numerous works including: the second labour of Hercules, a salt barrel showing the Triumph of Venus, statues of St. Sebastian and also St. Chritopher in St. Moritz Church, Augsburg (1628). A Bacchanale in ivory (1630/33) and Statue of the child Jesus (1632),
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