!!!Colin, Alexander

b. Mecheln (Belgium), 1527 or 1529, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Aug. 17, 1612, sculptor. Came to Innsbruck as an 
apprentice to the Cologne sculptors B. and A. Abel and created there 
his main sculptures for the Hofkirche church: the kneeling Emperor 
(1582/1583), the 4 cardinal virtues (1569) and most of the alabaster 
reliefs of the  Tomb of Maximilian; the marble funerary monuments for 
Archduke Ferdinand II (1588-1596) and his wife Philippine Welser 
(1581) in the Silver Chapel; and the funerary monument to Katharina 
von Loxan (around 1580). Also credited with further tombs and epitaphs 
in Hall and Schwaz in Tyrol, Meran/Merano (South Tyrol), Murstetten 
(Lower Austria) and Maria Laach (Lower Austria).

!Literature
H. Dressler, A. C., 1973.



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