Tobias Kracker


Tobias Kracker was a sculptor and painter from a family of artists who worked in Vienna during the 17th century and later throughout the Habsburg Monarchy.
He was trained in the school of his eponymous father Their work included portal figures and altars for the Vienna Schottenstift. Other students of the school include Balthasar Permoser, who lived in Vienna between 1670 and 1675.
Tobias Kracker the Younger collaborated with Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Paul Strudel on the work on the Vienna Plague Column.
He also created designs for the Imperial Coffins of Emperor Leopold I and his oldest son Joseph I for the Vienna Imperial Crypt, also sometimes called the "Capuchin Crypt."