Simon Sorg

Simon Sorg (* 1719 ; † December 3, 1792, probably in Regensburg ) was a Bavarian sculptor of the Rococo and Early Classicism .

biography

Simon Sorg worked as a sculptor in Regensburg and the surrounding area. From 1774 he appears as court sculptor for the Princes Thurn and Taxis. As with other sculptors and visual artists in Bavaria, the work of Simon Sorg shows the long survival of the popular rococo and a delayed reception of the new classical style ideals.

High altar by Simon Sorg in the old chapel in Regensburg

Works

• Collegiate Church of St. Johann in Regensburg: figure of Immaculata on the Marien Altar (around 1750, preserved); Holy grave (1758, not preserved)
• Dominican convent Heilig Kreuz in Regensburg: high altar, pulpit and confessionals (1751–1752)
• Kirchberg near Regenstauf : north side altar (1752)
• Dech Betten near Regensburg (today incorporated): high altar of the parish and pilgrimage church belonging to the Sankt Emmeram monastery (1773)
• Abbey of Our Lady of the Old Chapel in Regensburg: high altar and choir stalls of the collegiate church (1782–1783)
• Mariaort (municipality of Sinzing ) near Regensburg: side altars of the pilgrimage church attributed to Simon Sorg (around 1760–1780)
• Pettenreuth : high altar; the pulpit probably by Sorg based on designs by his teacher Joachim Anton Pfeffer
• Sankt Emmeram Abbey in Regensburg: funerary monuments for the princes of Thurn and Taxis
• St. Mang in Regensburg: Choir stalls of the parish church of St. Andreas

literature

• Rudolf Reiser : Sorg, Simon. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 734 ( digitized version ).
• Karl-Heinz Betz, Simon Sorg (1719–1792). Court sculptor for Prince Thurn and Taxis. A Regensburg master of the Bavarian Rococo (Thurn and Taxis Studies 12), Kallmünz 1980.