Balthasar Ferdinand Moll
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Balthasar Ferdinand Moll (born January 4, 1717 in Innsbruck , † March 3, 1785 in Vienna ) was an Austrian sculptor .
Life
He came from a Tyrolean family of sculptors and received his training from his father Nikolaus . He also studied with Georg Raphael Donner's brother at the academy , where he is proven from 1738 and 1751–1765 was a professor.
During the reign of Maria Theresa received numerous commissions from the court. It was mainly used here for the production of representational objects such as floats or splendid sleighs , in addition to which it created numerous Rococo splendor sarcophagi for the ruling family, which were buried in the imperial crypt of the Capuchin monastery in Vienna .
His first work on behalf of Empress Maria Theresa was the magnificent sarcophagus for Archduchess Karoline in 1748. His main work, however, is the double sarcophagus for Maria Theresa and Emperor Franz I Stephan in the Capuchin Crypt from 1754. It is over three meters long and around two meters wide. On the sides it is equipped with reliefs that show scenes from the life of the ruling couple: the entry into Florence as Grand Duke of Tuscany and the entry to the coronation in Frankfurt for Franz Stephan as well as the coronation as King of Bohemia in Prague and the coronation ride in Pressburg for Maria Theresia. Two life-size figures of the ruling couple sit on the sarcophagus, facing each other; behind them a putto is holding a wreath of stars over them. At the four corners of the sarcophagus sit mourning genii with crowns and coats of arms of their most important rulers: Holy Roman Empire , Hungary , Bohemia and Jerusalem . At the same time as the double sarcophagus for Maria Theresa and Emperor Franz I. Stephan, the sarcophagi of Emperor Karl VI. , his wife Empress Elisabeth Christine and Emperor Joseph I. redesigned by him. They mainly show scenes from the War of the Spanish Succession .
In 1768 he created the lead statues of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Theresa of Avila for the Innsbruck court church . He made other lead statues for the chancel in Gurk Cathedral . Equestrian statues of Joseph II (1776/77, in Laxenburg ) and the Emperors Franz I Stephan von Lothringen (1781, in the Burggarten ) as well as Field Marshal Joseph Wenzel Prince Liechtenstein come from him . A marble statue of Emperor Franz II in the Austrian Gallery ( Belvedere Palace ) is also attributed to him.
In 1894, Mollgasse in Vienna- Währing ( 18th district ) was named after him.
literature
- Ulrike König: Balthasar Ferdinand Moll. A sculptor of the Viennese late baroque . Vienna 1976, (Vienna, university, dissertation).
- Ulrike König: Moll, Balthasar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 733 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Moll, Balthasar Ferdinand . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 11 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Artur Schuschnigg : Moll, Anton Cassian . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 40-41 .
Web links
- Entry on Balthasar Ferdinand Moll in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Works by Balthasar Ferdinand Moll in: Digitales Belvedere
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minor, Balthasar Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1717 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1785 |
| Place of death | Vienna |