Ignaz Waibl otherwise Ignatzius Woibl or Waibel (1661 – 28 February 1733) was an

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n woodcarver. His carvings are among the most significant of the period.

Life

Waibl was born in Grins near

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in the

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, son of Thomas Waibl or Waibel and his wife Eva (formerly Wucherer). He was apprenticed to Melchior Lechleitner, and finished his apprenticeship after 5 years, in 1681. In 1683 he made the Angel Altar in the parish church of

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 soldier ...

and

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Oetz Oetz is a municipality in the Imst district of Tyrol, Austria, located 11.7 km (7.3 mi) southeast of Imst at the lower course of the Ötztaler Ache in the outer Ötztal valley at the foot of Acherkogel mountain (3 008 m, 9,869 ...

in the Tyrol. He was commissioned by Prior Johannes Bilstein to create the carvings of the choir stalls of

Buxheim Charterhouse Buxheim Charterhouse (german: Reichskartause Buxheim) was formerly a monastery of the Carthusians (the largest charterhouse in GermanyKlöster in Bayern: Buxheim) and is now a monastery of the Salesians. It is situated in Buxheim near Memmingen i ...

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, from 1687 to 1691. For the same monastery from 1699 to 1700 Waibl carved the celebrant's chair and two side altars. His works for Buxheim are among the most important

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wood sculptures. In about 1705 he was involved with several others on the refurbishment of the deanery church of

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in the Tyrol. This is the only substantial corpus of his work in his native Tyrol. From no later than 1708 (and quite possibly earlier) he lived in

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in Upper Swabia in Germany, a few kilometres from Buxheim Charterhouse. He died in Heimertingen on 28 February 1733.

Selected works

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(sculpture in the parish church of Reutte, Tyrol) * The Mouth of Hell (

predella In art a predella (plural predelle) is the lowest part of an altarpiece, sometimes forming a platform or step, and the painting or sculpture along it, at the bottom of an altarpiece, sometimes with a single much larger main scene above, but oft ...

in the parish church of St. George and St. Nicholas, Oetz, Tyrol) * Choir stalls of Buxheim Charterhouse * The Good Shepherd in the choir of the church of Saint Ulrich in Amendingen

Sources

* ''Ignaz Waibl'' in Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker u. a.: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Band XXXV, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1942, p. 61

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* Austrian sculptors Austrian male sculptors Austrian woodcarvers 1661 births 1733 deaths People from Tyrol (state) {{Austria-sculptor-stub