Johann Georg Pinzel

Background

Johann Georg Pinsel was born in 1707. The place and exact date of his birth remain unknown.

Career

Pinsel came to the Kingdom of Poland most probably around 1750. Later he settled in Buchach and became court artist to Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki.

Besides, he closely collaborated with Bernard Meretyn, and his student was Maciej Polejowski.

Pinsel's works include sculptures and decorations of the Buchach townhall (1750s), the Trinitarian church (1756-1757) and the St. George's Cathedral (headquarters of Greek Catholics) in Lviv (1759-1761), interiors of the Roman Catholic churches in: Monastyryska (1761), Horodenka (1752-1755) and Hodovytsia (1757-1758), sculptures in the Roman Catholic parish church in Budaniv.

His only work that survived intact, in its original spatial arrangement, is the facade of the St. George's Cathedral.

Johann Georg Pinsel died about 1761 in Buchach, Ukraine.

Achievements

• Johann Georg Pinzel was best know as the leading representative of the so-called "Lviv school" of the late-baroque and rococo sculpture. His work had a powerful influence on many 18-th century Galician sculptors and contributed to the establishment of the Galician tradition of rococo sculpture.
  
  The Pinzel Museum, a branch of the Lviv Art Gallery housing Pinzel’s sculptures, was opened in Lviv in 1996 in the former church of the Clarissines. In 2012 a large exhibition of Pinzel’s work took place at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Works

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• painting

  • Saint John the Baptist

  • Putti

  • Saint Elizabeth

  • Crucifixion

  • Allegory of Faith

  • Road to Emmaus

  • Angel

  • Crucifixion (fragment)

  • Altar of St. Nicholas with a sculpture of Jan Nepomuk

  • Seated female figure (Allegory of Orthodoxy)

  • Saint Felix with Child

  • Angel

  • Beheading of St. John the Baptist

  • Saint Athanasius

  • Annunciation

  • Saint Vincent

  • Samson tearing the lion's mouth

  • Saint Leo

  • Putti

  • Allegory of Wisdom

  • Figure of the bishop (Allegory of Catholicism)

  • Putti

  • The Miracle of St. Nicholas

  • Crucifixion

  • Saint Onuphrius

  • Abraham’s Sacrifice

  • Saint Tobias

  • Saint George

  • Putti

  • Roadside figure of St. John Nepomuk

  • Allegory of Courage

  • Angel

  • Guardian angel

  • Saint Anne (fragment)

  • Seated female figure (Allegory of Judaism)

  • Putti

  • Saint Francis Borgia

  • Virgin Mary

  • Our Lady

  • Putti

  • Altar of St. Jude Thaddeus with archangel Michael

  • Saint Anne

  • Head of angel

  • Jesus Christ with apostles

  • St. Joachim

Connections

In 1751, Pinsel married Marianna Majewska, with whom he had two sons: Bernard and Antoni.

Spouse:

Marianna Majewska

Son:

Bernard Pinsel

Son:

Antoni Pinsel