!!!Schoy, Johann Jacob

b. Maribor, Slovenia (then Marburg), July 20, 1686, 
d. Graz (Styria), April 4, 1732. Leading Styrian sculptor of the 
first half of the 18th century; in Graz from at least 1713, teacher of 
J. T.  Stammel.

!Works
Graz: high altar in the cathedral, 1730-1733 (main work); 
carved pieta in outer niche of the Buergerspitalskirche church; 
Johann-Nepomuk-group in the Zentralfriedhofskirche church; high altar 
in the Strassgang parish church. - Styria: trinity columns in Leoben 
and Vordernberg; statues for the Schoenberg parish church near 
Knittelfeld. - Vienna: Nepomuk statue in front of the entrance of the 
baroque museum in the Belvedere.

!Literature
R. List, Kunst und Kuenstler der Steiermark, vol. 3, 
1974.



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