Tobias Pock

Tobias Pock (* 1609 in Konstanz, † June 12, 1683 in Vienna, but also Pockh Tobias, Tobias Bock ) was a German or Austrian painter.

Life

Tobias Pock came from a Swabian family of artists; his father was a builder at Konstanz Cathedral. He settled in Southern Germany trained as a painter and went on study trips to Italy. He was a great painter of the early Austrian Baroque period, active in Vienna and surrounding areas from 1639.

One of the most important works pocks is the high altar of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna (1640 /47). For the cathedral created Tobias Pock later the altarpiece of St. Peter and Paul Altar, which the stonemason guilds built in 1677 and has been preserved as the second- oldest baroque altar of the cathedral under the Orgelfuß.

The altar of the Dominican Church in Vienna show the Adoration of the Magi. Dominic and Francis, as well as the presentation of the Rosary.

Other works were the Scots and the Servite church in Vienna, the Basilica " Assumption " in St. Pölten (Lower Austria ) ( 1658), Mariazell ( Styria ) and the frescoes in the Vienna Scots Church in Vienna (almost completely destroyed). Furthermore, works are found in the Marian shrine Holy Hill ( " Holy Mountain " ) with the " Church of the Visitation of Mary " and in the church of the former Carthusian monastery Aggsbach ( " Assumption ", 1673 ). His works show the style of the contemporary painter of Augsburg and Munich school, supplemented by ideas from northern Italy and Flanders.

The altar of the Dominican Church in Vienna are also from Tobias Pock and show the Adoration of the Magi. Dominic and Francis, as well as the presentation of the Rosary.

The draft of the Emperor Ferdinand III. donated in 1645 Mariensaeule Although Tobias Pock compliance, however the execution was under his brother Johann Jacob Pock vonstatten.