SCHOOL OF SIMON TROGER, SOUTH GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN, 18TH CENTURY

The Bavarian sculptor Simon Troger was born in 1693 or 1694 in Abfaltersbach. He studied in Innsbrueck with Nikolaus Moll beween 1723 and 1725. Towards 1730 he started working in Munich. Typical for his work were the beggar figures made of carved wood in combination with ivory. He died in 1769. (Tardy, Les Ivoires, Paris, 1979, p. 275)
Similar figures of the school of Simon Troger are in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 485, fig. 846)

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