Tobias Pock (or Poch, Bock or Pockh) (1609 - 12 June 1683) was an Austrian
Baroque painter from
Swabian descent, a pioneer of sacral art.
Pock was born in
Konstanz
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, where his father worked as a master at the Cathedral. Tobias Pock probably was an apprentice painter in Southern Germany. He worked mainly at first in Konstanz. But, after his trip to Italy, he settled around 1640 in Vienna, where he became a leading painter. He painted portraits, history canvases and still lifes, but he is mostly recognized for his many paintings of saints in churches in Vienna,
Lower Austria
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, and
Steiermark. His style is similar to the contemporary style of Southern Germany (München, Augsburg), but also contains influences from Flanders and Northern Italy. He died in
Vienna
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He left a considerable body of work:
*
Stephansdom
St. Stephen's Cathedral (german: Stephansdom) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP. The current Romanesque and Gothic form of the cathedra ...
, Vienna: baroque altar painting "The Stoning of St. Stephen"(1640–47) (his earliest known work).
*
Dominican church, Vienna:
**Altar of
Saint Dominic: altar painting (1655), depicting the saint adoring the Trinity.
**Chapel of St.
Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine of Alexandria (also spelled Katherine); grc-gre, ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς ; ar, سانت كاترين; la, Catharina Alexandrina). is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, ...
: altar painting
*
Schottenkirche, Vienna: altar paintings ''Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian'' (1649/1650), ''Assumption of Mary'' (1651/1655) and ''Saint Benedict'' (1654)
* Michaelerkirche, Vienna: high altar painting (1642)
* Maria Himmelfahrt basilica,
Sankt Pölten: high altar painting ''Assumption'' (1658)
*
Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna: high altar painting ''Coronation of
Saint Elisabeth of Thüringen by the
Virgin Mary
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and the
Christ Child, together with
Saint George
Saint George (Greek: Γεώργιος (Geórgios), Latin: Georgius, Arabic: القديس جرجس; died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition he was a soldie ...
and
Saint Helena'' (1667)
*
Mariazell Basilica: high altar painting
* Decoration of the altar in the Dominikuskapelle at the
Imperial Crypt, Vienna
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* Cartesian monastery in
Brno-Královo Pole: painting (now substituted by a less valuable picture)
*
Svatý Kopeček (Saint Hill) near
Olomouc
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Located on t ...
, Basilica Minor, St. Pauline, 1681, Altar of the Chapel of St. Pauline
References
* Turner, J. -
Grove Dictionary of Art
''Grove Art Online'' is the online edition of ''The Dictionary of Art'', often referred to as the ''Grove Dictionary of Art'', and part of Oxford Art Online, an internet gateway to online art reference publications of Oxford University Press, ...
; Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1990;
* Benezit, E. - Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs; Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1976;
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pock, Tobias
17th-century Austrian painters
Austrian male painters
People from Konstanz
1609 births
1683 deaths
Catholic painters