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Biography of Ignaz Günther
Name: Ignaz Günther
Birth Date: November 22, 1725
Death Date: June 26, 1775
Place of Birth: Altmannstein, Germany
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: sculptor, artist
Ignaz Günther
Ignaz Günther (1725-1775) was the foremost German rococo sculptor. His elongated forms and pastel polychromy combine Viennese sophistication and the gaiety of Bavarian folk art.Ignaz Günther was born in Altmannstein near Ingolstadt on Nov. 22, 1725, the son of a cabinetmaker and sometime sculptor, who was also his first teacher. Günther was sent to Munich in 1743 and apprenticed to the sculptor Johann Baptist Straub, who had a large workshop and trained many artists. In 1750 Günther set out as a journeyman, going first to Salzburg and then to Mannheim, where he worked with Paul Egell, whose dramatic style he admired greatly, until Egell's death in 1752. Günther then enrolled at the academy in Vienna in early 1753, with Mathias Donner, brother of the great Georg Raphael Donner, among his teachers, and in November he won a first prize.Günther returned to Munich to …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…portals for the Cathedral, the Frauenkirche. In 1773 he was appointed court sculptor. In 1774 he produced the Pietà at Nenningen, one of the most moving works of art of the rococo period--an era not usually characterized by depth of feeling. A comparison with the Weyarn Pietà reveals how much Günther's art had deepened in emotional feeling and how subtly he was able to suggest profound tragedy without recourse to theatrical gestures or expressions. He died in Munich on June 26, 1775. Further Reading The best work on Günther is the monograph, in German, by A. Schönberger, Ignaz Günther (1954), with excellent photographs. Satisfactory discussions in English are in John Bourke, Baroque Churches of Central Europe (1958; 2d rev. ed. 1962); Nicholas Powell, From Baroque to Rococo: An Introduction to Austrian and German Architecture from 1580 to 1790 (1959); and Eberhard Hempel, Baroque Art and Architecture in Central Europe (1965).
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