!!!Schwanthaler, Thomas

b. Ried im Innkreis (Upper Austria), June 5, 1634, 
d. Ried im Innkreis (Upper Austria), Feb. 13, 1707. Most 
important Upper Austrian sculptor in the second half of the 17th 
century; father of Johann Franz  Schwanthaler and Franz Matthias  
Schwanthaler. Took over the atelier of his father Hans S. in 1656; 
combined the local style of wood carving with the more emotional style 
coming from the South to obtain a realistic depiction of the human 
body.

!Works
Upper Austria: Eitzing, side altars, 1660/1661; Ried 
im Innkreis, statues at the high altar of the parish church, 
1663-1665, St. Florian altar, 1669, Christ with the 12 sleeping 
apostles on the Mount of Olives, choir stalls, 1699; Zell am 
Pettenfirst, high altar, 1668; Ungenach, statues, 1666-1671; 
Schalchen, wood carving group, 1672; Mehrnbach, St. John baptizing 
Christ in the River Jordan, 1675; St. Wolfgang, double altar, 
1675/1676 (principal work); Mattighofen, statues for the altar, 1676; 
Aspach, altar in the Anna-Chapel, 1676; Gmunden, statue group for the 
high altar in the parish church, 1678; Waldzell, high altar, 1683; 
Muensteuer, high altar, 1686; Reichersberg, epitaphs, iron statue of 
St. Michael; Tumeltsham, pulpit, 1697. - Salzburg: Andorf, wood 
carving group for the high altar, around 1672; Maria Plain, sculptures 
on three altars, end of the 17th century.

!Literature
T. S., exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1974.



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