!!!Schöpf, Josef

b. Telfs (Tyrol), Feb. 2, 1745, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Sept. 15, 1822. Painter of the late baroque 
era. Pupil and assistant of M.  Knoller and A. R. Mengs, 
1775-1783 in Rome, then in Innsbruck. He combined the baroque 
tradition with classicist forms.

!Works
wall and ceiling paintings and altar pieces: Innsbruck, 
cathedral, 1789, and Johann Nepomuk Church, 1794; Brixen im Thale, 
1795; Volders, 1798; Stams (collegiate church and parish church), 
1800/01; St. Johann in Ahrn (Antonius Chapel), 1803; Schwaz, 1807; 
Wattens, 1810.



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