Tobias Pock

Tobias Pock (or Poch, Bock or Pockh) (1609 - 12 June 1683) was an Austrian Baroque painter from Swabian descent, a pioneer of sacral art.

Pock was born in Konstanz, where his father worked as a master at the Cathedral.

Tobias Pock probably was an apprentice painter in Southern Germany.

But, after his trip to Italy, he settled around 1640 in Vienna, where he became a leading painter.

He painted portraits, history canvases and still lifes, but he is mostly recognized for his many paintings of saints in churches in Vienna, Lower Austria, and Steiermark.