He was born in Oberglogau (Głogówek) near
Neustadt (Prudnik),
Upper Silesia, which was then part of Austria. He had a sculpture workshop in
Venice.
Prince Eugene of Savoy managed to persuade him to move to Vienna, along with his workshop. From 1700 to 1721, in collaboration with architect
Lukas von Hildebrandt, he created a series of sculptures for the balustrades and other decorative sculpture for the
Lower Belvedere in Vienna. Other works include the 1700 relief for the tombstone of Count Siegfried Sarau in the Deutschordenskirche, (Singerstrasse, Vienna), the relief on the gable of the
Karlskirche, entitled the
Apotheosis of St. Charles Borromeo in memory of the plague (1725), and a further plague monument in
Baden bei Wien, featuring
Mary Magdalene. In 1712, following the death of
Emperor Joseph I, he became
court sculptor. == Sources ==