(b Ausserpfitsch, nr Sterzing, Tyrol, 1661; d Straubing, Bavaria, 1706). German sculptor. He was first apprenticed to Hans Wild ( fl 1678), an armourer in the Tyrol; he is next recorded in 1693 in Straubing, where he became a master and citizen in 1695. Much work by him in Straubing is extant: in St Veit’s church he was responsible for the wooden herms of angels on the pulpit, the angels on the pulpit sound-board and the wooden putti and herms on the side altars, as well as allegorical stucco figures of Ecclesia and Bavaria and the angels on the arch of the choir. The epitaph of the patrician Stöger family on the north wall of St Peter’s church (1693) shows that he also worked in stone. Fux’s most important work, however, is in ivory, for example a group of the Crucifixion with St Mary Magdalene in the Carmelite monastery in Straubing. His masterly carvings of Crucifixes and figures of saints, such as the Virgin and St John the Evangelist (1683; Munich, Bayer. NMus.), Virgin and Child (Hamburg, Mus. Kst & Gew.) and St Sebastian (1690–1700; Hamburg, Mus. Kst & Gew.), are executed with exquisite workmanship and are distinguished by the delicacy and formal variety of the modelling of garments and by the unpretentious naturalness of the faces and gestures. Drawings found in Straubing reveal that Fux acted as adviser in the rebuilding (c. 1702) in the Baroque style of the tower of St Veit.