Johann Georg Kapfer

Works by Johann Georg Kapfer

Main altar of the Guardian Angel Church (left)

Main altar of the Guardian Angel Church (right)

High altar of the Guardian Angel Church

High altar of the Church of the Birth of Mary (Traunwalchen)

Johann Georg Kapfer (around 1720 - 1794 ) was a German sculptor of the rococo .

Life

The Kapfer family came from Neumarkt-St. Veit moved to Trostberg . Probably around 1758 Kapfer was involved in the design of the church of Margarethenberg, later of Baumburg monastery and Raitenhaslach , together with the painter Franz Joseph Soll and the builder Franz Alois Mayr . The surviving main works of the Trostberg carver, who often worked with the master builder Mayr, include the two front side altars of the pilgrimage church Maria Queen of the Rosary in Marienberg near Burghausen (1765), the high altar for the Church of the Birth of Mary (Traunwalchen) (1768) and von Heilig Guardian Angel Monastery (Burghausen) and the wall altars of St. Mary's Assumption (Feichten an der Alz) (1785).

His son (Joseph) Benedikt Kapfer continued the workshop. His works include the crucifix and the statue of the Virgin Mary in the cemetery church of St. Michael and the choir stalls in the collegiate parish church of St. Philipp and Jakob , both in Altötting .

literature

• Kapfer, Johann Georg. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 404 ( digitized version ).