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.

Self-portrait with family
Coronation of Saint Elisabeth of Thüringen by the Virgin Mary and Christ, together with Saint George and Saint Helena (1667).
Chapel of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Dominican church, Vienna