St Sebastian
by GUGGENBICHLER, Johann Meinrad, Painted wood, slightly under life-size
Johann Meinrad Guggenbichler continued the Alpine carving tradition of Thomas Schwanthaler and from 1675 was employed in the monastery at Mondsee. From the workshop he established there in 1679, he turned out numerous painted wooden figure in which he developed the heavy representation of drapery and body gestures used by older masters as a means of expressing spiritual introspection.