!!!Schwanthaler, Johann Franz

b. Ried im Innkreis (Upper Austria), Aug. 16, 1683, 
d. Ried im Innkreis (Upper Austria), July 3, 1762. Sculptor; son 
of Thomas  Schwanthaler, brother of Franz Matthias  Schwanthaler, 
father of Johann Peter  Schwanthaler the Elder. Artistic style was 
strongly influenced by his father, whose atelier in Ried he took over 
in 1710.

!Works
Altar in Poetting, around 1730 (principal work); statues in the 
parish churches in Ried im Innkreis, Gurten, Lohnsburg, Pram, 
Schildorn, Waldzell; Mourning-of-Christ group in Mehrnbach; group of 
statues in St. Thomas near Ried (all in Upper Austria).



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