Balthasar Ferdinand Moll
Balthasar Ferdinand Moll ( born January 4, 1717 Innsbruck, † March 3, 1785 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor.
He came from a Tyrolean sculptor family and received his education from his father Nicholas. He also studied with Georg Raphael Donner brother at the academy, where he is shown from 1738 and from 1751 to 1765 was professor.
During the reign of Maria Theresa numerous orders received at court. It was used here mainly for the production of representational objects such as floats or sleighs, next he created numerous rococo splendor sarcophagi for the ruling family, who were buried in the imperial crypt of the Capuchin monastery in Vienna.
His first work commissioned by Empress Maria Theresa in 1748 of the magnificent sarcophagus for the Archduchess Karoline. But his real masterpiece is the double sarcophagus of Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I in the Imperial Crypt in the year, 1754. He is about three feet long and about two feet wide. On the sides, it is equipped with reliefs depicting scenes from the life of the king and queen show: the collection in Florence as Grand Duke of Tuscany and of the catchment for the coronation in Frankfurt Franz Stephan and the coronation as King of Bohemia in Prague and the coronation ride in Bratislava Maria Theresa. On the sarcophagus there are two life-size figures of the royal couple, facing each other; behind them holding a putto a circle of stars on it. Sit at the four corners of the sarcophagus mourning genii with crowns and coats of arms of their most important rulers Title: Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, Bohemia and Jerusalem. At the same time as the double sarcophagus of Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I and the sarcophagus of Emperor Charles VI. , His wife Empress Elisabeth Christine and Emperor Emperor Joseph I have been converted by him. They mainly show scenes of the Spanish War of Succession.
In 1768 he created for the Innsbruck Hofkirche the lead statues of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Theresa of Avila. More Lead statues he made for the altar space in the Cathedral of Gurk ago. He also created equestrian statues of Joseph II (1778, in Laxenburg ), and the Emperor Franz I Stephan of Lorraine (1781, in the castle garden ), and Field Marshal Prince Joseph Wenzel Liechtenstein originate. A marble statue of Emperor Francis II in the Austrian Gallery ( Belvedere Palace ) is attributed to him.
In 1894 ( 18th District ) was named the minor street after him in Vienna Waehring.