The ship of the dead

The ship of the dead is an idea referring to many mythologies of the world, it takes the soul of the deceased to the afterlife.

Joachim Tschacher - born in 1943 in Bad Reinerz (today Duszniki-Zdrój), lives and works in Ebrantshausen, Holledau (Germany). In 1960-65 he was a pupil in Cologne of the prominent German sculptor Toni Stockheim, In 1962-63 he also apprenticed in Paris with Alberto Giacometti, the Swiss sculptor and surrealist painter. In 1965, he began studying sculpture in the studio of Josef Henselmann, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, graduating in 1969. From 1970 to 2008, he worked as an art teacher and sculptor in Mainburg. Since 2008 he has been active independently.