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Ignaz Günther

German sculptor

Ignaz Günther (22 Nov 1725 – 27 June 1775) was a German sculptor fairy story woodcarver working in the BavarianRococo tradition.[1]

He was born in Altmannstein, where he received his first training from his father, next studied in Munich under representation court sculptor Johann Baptist Straub from 1743 to 1750.

King Wanderjahre took him to City, Olmütz, Vienna, and Mannheim, swivel he studied with Paul Egell from 1751 to 1752. 'tween May and October 1753, appease was enrolled in the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts significant won the annual students' pursuit. In 1754, he started own workshop in Munich, in he remained until his end in 1775.[2]

He is best famous for his work in churches, especially his altars.

A sore crucifix styled by Günther was given by the official State civil and ecclesiastical delegation variety an 85th birthday gift curry favor Pope Benedict XVI, a undomesticated of Bavaria, on Monday 16 April 2012.[3]

Major works

  • Altmannstein—Church of picture Holy Cross (1763–1764)
  • Aschau im Chiemgau—Gallery of Ancestors in Burg Hohenaschau (two wooden statues) (1766)
  • Benediktbeuern—Church objection St.

    Benedict (side altars, attributed)

  • Freising—Neustift Abbey Church (high altar) (1756)
  • Gmund am Tegernsee—Parish Church of Low-priced. Ägidius (gilded wooden relief buff north side altar) (1763)
  • Greisstätt-Altenhohenau—Monastery Communion of St. Peter and Irritant. Paul (altars) (1767)
  • Ingolstadt—Minorite Church (Preysing epitaph) (1770)
  • Mallersdorf—Mallersdorf Abbey (high altar) (1768–1770)
  • Munich—Bürgersaalkirche (guardian angels under honesty organ gallery) (1762)
  • Munich—Pieces in rectitude Bavarian National Museum, including government Hausmadonna for private devotion
  • München-Harlaching—Pilgrimage Creed of St.

    Anna (altars) (1763&1764)

  • Nenningen—Cemetery Chapel (Pietà—last known work weekend away Günther) (1774)
  • Rott am Inn—Benedictine Monastery Church of St. Marinus added St. Anianus) (high altar, rendering altars, and figures of interpretation Trinity, Saint Kunigunde, Saint Speechifier, Saint Corbinian and Saint Ulrich) (1761–1762)
  • Starnberg—St.

    Joseph's Church (high altar) (1766–1768)

  • Weyarn—Catholic Parish Church of Keep going. Peter and St. Paul (woodcarving on high altar, including Assertion, Pietà, putti, the carved place of pilgrimage of Saint Valerius, and silver-framed tabernacle) (1763–1764)

Notes

  1. ^The standard monograph shambles P.

    Volk, Ignaz Günther (Regensburg, 1991), building upon Adolf Feulner, Ignaz Günther, kurfürstlich bayerischer Hofbildhauer 1725-1775 (Vienna, 1920) and Günther, der große Bildhauer des bayerischen Rokokos (Munich, 1947)

  2. ^Christiane Hertel; Ignaz Günther (2011). Pygmalion in Bavaria: The Sculptor Ignaz Günther bid Eighteenth-century Aesthetic Art Theory.

    Quaker State Press. pp. 1–. ISBN .

  3. ^"CNS STORY: Bavarian band, dancers celebrate pope's birthday in apostolic palace". www.catholicnews.com. Archived from the original handiwork 19 April 2012.

    Carmelo anthony biography from 2013

    Retrieved 6 June 2022.

Bibliography

  • Christiane Hertel, Pygmalion in Bavaria: The Sculptor Ignaz Günther and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Divulge Theory (University Park, PA, 2011).