Joseph Götsch

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Joseph Götsch (born March 27, 1728 in Längenfeld in the Ötztal ; † November 21, 1793 in Markt Aibling near Rosenheim ) was a sculptor and representative of the Bavarian Rococo .

Life

Joseph Götsch came from a family that had produced joiners, joiners, carpenters and sculptors over several generations. He was born in Tyrol in the Ötztal in the municipality of Längenfeld in the Oberried district. The family can be traced back to Längenfeld in 1691. He stayed in the Ötztal until 1758, where he worked for various churches.

After a short stay in Munich in 1759 he asked to be accepted as a citizen in Markt Aibling. He was able to settle down as a sculptor exempted from guilds, married in the same year and opened his workshop. In 1760 and 1762 two children were born. His wife died in 1770. In 1773 an illegitimate daughter was born.

In 1775 he married a second time. The marriage remained childless. He became increasingly drunk, got into debt and had to sell his house in 1781. In the 1770s and 80s he traveled several times to a bath in the Ötztal, where he again carried out various work. In 1793 he died penniless in Aibling, his wife in 1804 as a child maid also in Aibling.

Works

Only works in wood by Joseph Götsch have survived. An ivory relief is reported, for example, but all of this, along with many woodwork, is lost. His Tyrolean work is done in Swiss stone pine, his Bavarian in linden tree. Practically all of his surviving works are figures of saints, crucifixes and altar structures, as well as some design drawings for altars.

After a suspected first training in the workshop of the father can be of his first works suggest that his development and his artistic role models in Stams at Hans Reindl and in Vienna within Matthias Donner and Johann Nikolaus Moll and Balthasar Ferdinand Moll to are looking for. From 1751 he worked for parish churches in the Ötztal, especially in Sölden and Längenfeld.

After moving to Bavaria, he was primarily active in the area of ​​the Mangfall and Inn from the Austrian border to Wasserburg and to the Chiemsee. In 1762 he worked together with Ignaz Günther to shape the newly built Benedictine monastery in Rott am Inn . There he was able to create groups of figures and side altars on his own, partly based on designs by Ignaz Günther. He then worked for parish churches, monasteries, pilgrimage sites and castle chapels, supported by the clergy and the local nobility and in constant confrontation with guild masters.

List of works (selection)

Statue of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia, former Rott am Inn abbey church

literature

  • Adelheid Unger: Joseph Götsch - A sculptor of the late Baroque in Tyrol and Bavaria (1728–1793). Weißenhorn, Anton H. Konrad Verlag, 1972
  • Roger Diederen, Christoph Kurzeder (eds.): With body and soul - Munich Rococo from Asam to Günther. Sieveking Verlag, Munich, 2014 ( ISBN 978-3944874159 )
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Bavaria IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria. 3rd edition 2006, Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin ( ISBN 978-3422031159 )

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personal data
SURNAME Götsch, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Längenfeld
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1793
Place of death Aibling market