Tobias Pock (or Poch, Bock or Pockh) (1609 - 12 June 1683) was an Austrian

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painter from

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n descent, a pioneer of sacral art. Pock was born in

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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,

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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

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. He left a considerable body of work: *

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, Vienna: baroque altar painting "The Stoning of St. Stephen"(1640–47) (his earliest known work). * Dominican church, Vienna: **Altar of

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: altar painting (1655), depicting the saint adoring the Trinity. **Chapel of St.

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: 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,

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: high altar painting ''Assumption'' (1658) * Church of the Teutonic Order, Vienna: high altar painting ''Coronation of Saint Elisabeth of Thüringen by the

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and the

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, together with

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and

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'' (1667) *

Mariazell Basilica Mariazell Basilica, also known as Basilica Mariä Geburt (Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary), is a Roman Catholic Pontifical shrine in Mariazell, Austria. It is the most important pilgrimage destination in Austria and one of the most visite ...

: high altar painting * Decoration of the altar in the Dominikuskapelle at the

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* Cartesian monastery in

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: painting (now substituted by a less valuable picture) * Svatý Kopeček (Saint Hill) near

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, Basilica Minor, St. Pauline, 1681, Altar of the Chapel of St. Pauline

References

* Turner, J. -

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; 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