Johann Georg Pinsel ( pl, Johann Georg / Jan Jerzy Pinsel, uk, Йоган Ґеорґ Пінзель; 1715–1725
– 1761 or early 1762) was a
Baroque-
Rococo
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sculptor active in
Eastern Galicia (then in
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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, now
Ukraine
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).
Biographical details about him are scarce. He was discovered by
Jan Bołoz Antoniewicz and appeared in scholarly literature in 1923 in the monograph of p. Władysław Żyła "Kościół i klasztor Dominikanów we Lwowie" ("Dominican church and monastery in Lviv").
His first and second name, some information about his family and approximate date of death were only established in 1993,
with the discovery of registers of the
Buchach
Buchach ( uk, Бучач; pl, Buczacz; yi, בעטשאָטש, Betshotsh or (Bitshotsh); he, בוצ'אץ' ''Buch'ach''; german: Butschatsch; tr, Bucaş) is a city located on the Strypa River (a tributary of the Dniester) in Chortkiv Raion of T ...
Roman Catholic
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parish.
The place and exact date of his birth remain unknown.
Pinsel came to the
Kingdom of Poland
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most probably around 1750. According to
Jan K. Ostrowski, it is almost certain that he was of
German ethnic origin. He settled in Buchach and became court artist to
Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki.
On 13 May 1751, he married Marianna Elżbieta née Majewska, the widow of Jan Kieyt, with whom he had two sons: Bernard and Antoni.
He closely collaborated with
Bernard Meretyn.
His student was
Maciej Polejowski.
He died between September 16, 1761 and October 24, 1762, probably in Buchach.
Pinsel's works include sculptures and decorations of the
Buchach Town Hall (1750s), the
Trinitarian church (1756-1757) and the
St. George's Cathedral (headquarters of
Greek Catholics) in
Lviv
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, (1759-1761), interiors of the Roman Catholic churches in:
Monastyryska (1761),
Horodenka (1752-1755) and
Hodovytsia (1757-1758),
sculptures in the Roman Catholic parish church in
Budaniv.
His only work that survived intact, in its original spatial arrangement, is the facade of the St. George's Cathedral. His sculptural complexes in the Roman Catholic churches in Horodenka and
Monastyryska were almost completely destroyed between 1939 and 1989. The figures of the high altar in Hodovytsia have been saved thanks to efforts of the staff of the
Lviv Art Gallery.
Selected works
* Stone monumental sculpture of St.
John of Nepomuk
John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) ( cs, Jan Nepomucký; german: Johannes Nepomuk; la, Ioannes Nepomucenus) ( 1345 – 20 March 1393)
was the saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus ...
(preserved heads, 1750) and Virgin Mary (1751) in Buchach
* Stone sculpture for parapet
Buchach Town Hall (initially 14 survived)
* The altar of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Horodenka (18 sculptures, rescued 5)
* Column with a statue of the Virgin Mary in Horodenka
* The interior of churches in
Ustia Zelene (now
Chortkiv Raion) and
Hvizdets
Hvizdets ( uk, Гвізде́ць, pl, Gwoździec, yi, גוואַזדזיעץ, G'vojiets) is an urban-type settlement in Kolomyia Raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (region), Ukraine. It is located ENE of Kolomyia, SE of Ivano-Franki ...
* Saint
Onuphrius
Onuphrius ( el, Ὀνούφριος, Onouphrios; also ''Onoufrios'') lived as a hermit in the desert of Upper Egypt in the 4th or 5th centuries. He is venerated as Saint Onuphrius in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic churches, as Vene ...
(
Rukomysh)
References
External links
Marko Robert Stech, Pinzel, Johann Georg in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinsel, Johann Georg
18th-century births
Polish Baroque sculptors
Polish male sculptors
Ukrainian male sculptors
Ukrainian sculptors
German Baroque sculptors
Ukrainian Baroque sculptors
People from Buchach
Artists from Lviv
1725 deaths