!!!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.



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