Tobias Pock (Konstanz

Konstanz

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, 1609 - Vienna

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, 12 June 1683) was an Austrian Baroque

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 painter from Swabia

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n descent, a pioneer of sacral art.
His father worked as a master at the Cathedral of Konstanz, when Tobias Pock was born. Tobias Pock probably was an apprentice painter in Southern Germany. He worked mainly at first in Konstanz. But, after his trip to Italy, he settled around 1640 in Vienna, where he became a leading painter. He painted portraits, history canvases and still lifes, but he is mostly recognized for his many paintings of saints in churches in Vienna, Lower Austria

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 and Steiermark. His style is similar to the contemporary style of Southern Germany (München, Augsburg), but also contains influences from Flanders and Northern Italy.

He left a considerable body of work :

• Stephansdom
  Stephansdom
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  , Vienna : baroque altar painting "The Stoning of St. Stephen"(1640-47) (his earliest known work).
• Dominican church
  Dominikanerkirche (Vienna)
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  , Vienna :
  • Altar of Saint Dominic
    Saint Dominic
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     : altar painting (1655), depicting the saint adoring the Trinity.
  • Chapel of St. Catherine of Alexandria
    Catherine of Alexandria
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    : altar painting
• Schottenkirche
  Schottenstift, Vienna
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  , Vienna : paintings for the high altar and the Apostelaltar (1651-1655)
• Michaelerkirche, Vienna : high altar painting (1642)
• Maria Himmelfahrt basilica, Sankt Pölten
  Sankt Pölten
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  : high altar painting Assumption (1658)
• Church of the Teutonic Order
  Deutschordenskirche (Vienna)
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  , Vienna: high altar painting Coronation of Virgin Mary, surrounded by the Patron saints of the Teutonic Order Saint Elisabeth of Thüringen
  Elisabeth of Hungary
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   and Saint George
  Saint George
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  (1667)
• Mariazell Basilica
  Mariazell Basilica
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   : high altar painting
• Decoration of the altar in the Dominikuskapelle at the Imperial Crypt, Vienna
  Imperial Crypt, Vienna
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• Cartesian monastery in Brno-Královo Pole
  Královo Pole
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   : painting (now substituted by a less valuable picture)
• Svatý Kopeček (Saint Hill) near Olomouc
  Olomouc
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  , Basilica Minor, St. Pauline, 1681, Altar of the Chapel of St. Pauline