Johann Pacher

High altar in the parish church of St Veit

St. George in the Sörg parish church

Johann Pacher (* around 1699; † March 14, 1773) was an Austrian baroque wood sculptor.

Life

Johann Pacher was probably born in 1699. In 1729 he is mentioned for the first time in a document on the occasion of his marriage to the St. Veit citizen daughter Maria Anastasia Ruckensattel. He died on March 14, 1773 at the age of 74. After Pacher's death, Johann Georg Hittinger took over the workshop.

plant

Johann Pacher was involved in the implementation of numerous church furnishings in the area around Sankt Veit, in Upper Carinthia and in the Lavant Valley . The first documented work was the high altar for the 14 Holy Helper Church in Sankt Veit, which no longer exists today.

His work also includes:

• High altar in the parish church of Brückl (1758)
• High altar in the Buchholz branch church (1768)
• Pulpit, tabernacle and side altar in the branch church on Christophsberg (1771)
• High altar, two side altars and pulpit in the pilgrimage church of Maria Hilf ob Guttaring (1744/45)
• Pulpit and Nepomukglorie in the pilgrimage church Maria Saal
• Army soul altar in the parish church Metnitz (around 1755)
• High altar in the Oswaldikirche in Nussberg (1740)
• High altar in the parish church of Obermühlbach (1769)
• Cross altar in the parish church Pulst (1731/32)
• High altar in the parish church of St. Donat (1749)
• High altar in the pilgrimage church of St. Kosmas
• Nepomuk altar in the parish church of St. Martin am Krappfeld (around 1750/60)
• Complete furnishings for the parish church of St. Salvator near Friesach
• Cross altar (1745), Florianialtar (1747), high altar (1752) and pulpit (1734) in the parish church of Sankt Veit an der Glan
• High altar in the monastery church St. Veit (1734)
• Statues in the Kalvarienbergkirche St. Vitus
• Side altars in the parish church of Sörg (around 1750)
• Pulpit of the subsidiary church St. Leonhard im Bade (attributed to)

literature

• Barbara Kienzl: The baroque pulpits in Carinthia . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 1986, ISBN 3-900531-16-1 , p. 128.
• Barbara Neubauer-Kienzl , Wilhelm Deuter, Eduard Mahlknecht: Baroque in Carinthia . With a contribution by Eva Berger. Universitätsverlag Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2000, ISBN 3-85378-489-5 , pp. 75-79.

Web links

Commons : Johann Pacher  - album with pictures, videos and audio files