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Stammel, Josef [Joseph Antonius]
(b Graz, bapt 9 Nov 1695; d Admont, Styria, bur 21 Dec 1765). Austrian sculptor. The name Thaddäus Stammel, by which he is sometimes known, is a 19th-century invention. He was the son of Johann Georg Stammel (d 1707), a sculptor from Bavaria, and was taught by Johann Jakob Schoy (1686–1733). He probably spent the years 1718–25 in Italy, at the expense of the Benedictine abbey of Admont, for whom he worked exclusively from 1726 until his death. Stammel’s early works already display his characteristic combination of the Alpine tradition with the Roman High Baroque idiom. He was particularly influenced by the art of Bernini, evident in the wood statues of St Joachim and St Anne (1726; Graz, Steiermärk. Landesmus.) from an altar to the Virgin, of which only parts have survived, and the stone figures (1730) of the Calvary shrine at Frauenberg, near Admont.
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