- GUNTHER, Ignaz
1725-75
Sculptor
- Ignaz Gunther was a German Rococo sculptor, mainly in painted wood. He was the son of a rural woodworker and sculptor and was trained in Munich from 1743, going to Vienna, where he won a prize at the Academy in 1753, before returning to Munich in 1754. His Empress Kunigunde (1762: Rott am Inn) and Guardian Angel (1763: Munich, Burgersaal) are like sculptured versions of Tiepolo and Guardi respectively, full of cheerful Rococo gaiety, in pink, blue and gold, but the Pieta (1758: Kircheiselfing) and the one of 1774 (his last work) in the Cemetery Chapel at Nenningen show the style was also capable of rendering deep and genuine religious emotion.
Most of his works are in Munich and its neighbourhood, but there is one in Cleveland Ohio, and another in Detroit.
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- Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
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