Ignaz Waibl


Ignaz Waibl otherwise Ignatzius Woibl or Waibel was an Austrian woodcarver. His carvings are among the most significant of the period.

Life

Waibl was born in Grins near Landeck in the Tyrol, son of Thomas Waibl or Waibel and his wife Eva. He was apprenticed to Melchior Lechleitner, and finished his apprenticeship after 5 years, in 1681.
In 1683 he made the Angel Altar in the parish church of Saint George and Saint Nicholas in Oetz in the Tyrol. He was commissioned by Prior Johannes Bilstein to create the carvings of the choir stalls of Buxheim Charterhouse in Buxheim, Upper Swabia, from 1687 to 1691. For the same monastery from 1699 to 1700 Waibl carved the celebrant's chair and two side altars. His works for Buxheim are among the most important Baroque wood sculptures.
In about 1705 he was involved with several others on the refurbishment of the deanery church of Breitenwang in Reutte in the Tyrol. This is the only substantial corpus of his work in his native Tyrol.
From no later than 1708 he lived in Heimertingen in Upper Swabia in Germany, a few kilometres from Buxheim Charterhouse. He died in Heimertingen on 28 February 1733.

Selected works