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Dorfmeister, Johann Georg
(b Vienna, 22 Sept 1736; d Saska, Banat [now Caras-Severin, Romania], 1786). Austrian sculptor. He received his basic training from his brother-in-law, Johann Georg Leuthner (1725–85). From 1757 to 1761 he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, with Matthäus Donner and with Balthasar Ferdinand Moll, who also gave him practical instruction in metal-casting. Under the influence of the sculpture of Georg Raphael Donner (see DONNER, (1)) he developed a graceful variant of the classicizing Viennese late Baroque style. His figures, with supple, attenuated limbs, elaborate contrapposto poses and sensitive surface execution, could almost be described, in the Viennese context, as Rococo.
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