Moll, Balthasar Ferdinand#
b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Jan. 4, 1717, d. Vienna, March 3, 1785, sculptor. Began his training under his father Nikolaus M., took over the artistic estate of G. R. Donner; 1751-1754 taught at the Vienna Academy. His later works are already classicist in character.
Works#
Vienna: tombstones in St. Stephen´s cathedral; ornamental coffins of the imperial family in the Capuchin tombs, double sarcophagus for Franz I and Maria Theresia (1751-1772, main work); equestrian statue of Franz I in Vienna Burggarten, 1781.Literature#
U. Koenig, B. F. M., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1976; NDB.