Ferdinand Brokoff

Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff (also: Prokop, Czech: Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokoff ) ( born September 12, 1688 in Roth House, † March 8, 1731 in Prague) was a sculptor of the Baroque.

Origin

Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff came from a family of sculptors from George Berg ( Spišská Sobota ) in the County of Zips. His father Johann Brokoff came after his training in Regensburg on the move to Prague and started 1670 with a sculpture workshop independently, in which both sons (Michael Johann Brokoff and the younger by two years, Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff ) were active.

Education and work

Ferdinand was a pupil of his father and continued his education at the sculptor Andreas Quitainer continued. From 1707 he possessed the citizenship of Prague's Old Town and he worked in the family workshop. His influences in shaping his sculptural works were Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini and Matthias Bernard Braun.

Brokoff participated in 1707 with independent work on the sculptural decoration of the Charles Bridge. With this figure compositions he soon became known, and it was followed by large orders of Prague and the Bohemian nobility.

Significantly has been working with Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, according to the draft of which he created the Tomb of the Bohemian Obert Chancellor Johann Wenzel Wratislaw of Mitrowitz for Brokoff. In 1722 he was called by Fischer von Erlach to Breslau, where he received an order for the sculptural decoration of the cathedral orchestra was transferred. 1726, he worked again in Prague and among other things, created the Marian Column with the sculptures of the eight patron saints at Hradcany. In 1728 he acquired the citizenship of Prague's New Town. In the same year he produced in Vienna, the model for the stuccoed high altar of St. Charles Church.

1729 came a big order of the Cistercian monastery Grüssau in Silesia, which he led decoration of the church was under construction transmitted. There he worked on the models until 1730. After his early death, his pupil Anton Dorazil took over with a sculptor 's workshop from Prague the management and completion of the work.

Was buried Brokoff like his father and his brother Johann Michael on the no longer existing cemetery near the church of St. Martin in the Wall in Prague. Today, a plaque commemorates the church with the portrait of Ferdinand Maximilian to the family of sculptors.

Works

In Prague

  • Charles Bridge: St. Barbara, St. Margaret and St. Elizabeth (1707 ); St. Cajetan (1709 ); St. Francis of Borgia (1710 ); St. Francis Xavier (1711 ); St. Vincent and St. Prokop (1712 ); St. John of Matha, St. Felix of Valois and St. Ivan (1714 ); St. Vitus (1714 )
  • Hrzán Palace: façade decoration
  • Morzin Palace: allegories day and night over the portal and other decorative figures
  • At the Golden Deer (U zlatého jelena, Tomášská ul No. 4): group of sculptures Saint Hubert kneeling before the stag
  • Hradčanské Place: Marian Column with sculptures of the eight patron saints (1726)
  • St. George's Basilica ( Basilica stvatého Jiří ): statue of St. John of Nepomuk
  • St. Jacob's Church ( Kostel svatého Jakuba ): Tomb of the Chancellor's Colonel Johann Wenzel Wratislaw of Mitrowitz (along with JB Fischer von Erlach )
  • St. Thomas Church ( Kostel svatého Tomáše ): sculptures of Czech patron saints
  • Tyn Church: marble relief of Christ Family
  • St. Gallus Church ( Kostel svatého Havla ): sculptures of Calvary Chapel

In other places in Bohemia

  • Dux: plastic interior of the Wallenstein Palace (together with Matthias Bernard Braun and Wenzel Lorenz Reiner )
  • Horschin ( Horin ) Mělníka: statue of St. Nepomuk in the park of Lobkowicz hunting lodge

In Vienna

  • Charles Church: a model for the stuccoed scene at the high altar (1728, probably version)
  • St. Michael's Church: Epitaph of Prince Trautson (1723-1724, together with Fischer von Erlach )

In Silesia

  • Breslau ( Wrocław), Domkapelle: Statues of Aaron and Moses, angel figure above the altar, jewelry portal with scenes Ascension of Christ, hell, death of James and The Last Supper
  • Wroclaw, St. Elizabeth's Church ( Kościół Św Elżbiety. ): Epitaph for Johann Georg von Wolff (draft Fischer von Erlach )
  • Grüssau, monastery church facade sculptures of Moses and the SS. Benedict of Nursia, Scholastica, Gregory the Great, Bernard of Clairvaux and Luitgart of Tongeren. ; about: cherubs with bands; about it in side niches: Annunciation and Visitation; Designs for the Fassadenbekrönungen; Design of architectural and sculptural high altar; Choir stalls; organ pipes
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