Large carved group of figures Josef Beyrer

Large carved group of figures Josef Beyrer
sign. JBeyrer and dated 1864, wood carved and brownish painted, long rectangular plinth with central seated figure of Moses, flanked by numerous other figures devoutly listening to the words of the sage, traces of age, loss of substance, l. approx. 140 cm.
artist info: austrian Sculptor (1839 - 1924), from 1853 to 1856 apprenticeship with Franz Xaver Renn in Imst, from 1857 to 1862 Josef Beyrer worked with his compatriot Johann Nepomuk Petz in Munich, in 1862 he founded a "studio for altar building and church restoration work" with the master stonemason Johann Schwarz in Kaufbeuren, from 1865 he ran his own studio in Munich, appointments to the art schools in Nuremberg in 1866 and Innsbruck in 1868 declined, Already as an apprentice he had his first encounters with the blossoming art of the Nazarenes, Beyrer mostly used wood as a material, but he was also able to work with stone. His works were mainly found in Swabia, but his works can also be found in the rest of Bavaria and Germany, and he even delivered some of them to France, England and Switzerland, Quelle: Wikipedia. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.