 Around 1690, he bought a property in the suburbs from the imperial ""gewesten Hatschieren-Rott"" master Romanus Bernhard Tschagon and his wife Marie Polixena.There he built the "Strudelhof" mansion, where he founded a private art school in 1688.This was the first general training centre for artists outside the painters guild, after the model of the Accademia di San Luca (1593) and that of the French "Académie Royale" ("Académie de peinture et de sculpture", founded in 1648 in Paris).