Matthias Bernard Braun ( Czech: Matyáš Bernard Braun ; February 24, 1684 , Sautens - February 15, 1738 , Prague ) - Czech sculptor of Austrian origin.
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Biography
Matthias Bernard Brown was born on February 24, 1684 in the commune of Sautens near Innsbruck (now the Austrian state of Tyrol ). The fifth child of nine in the family of the blacksmith Yakub Brown and Magdalene. The younger brother Dominic became an artist, his nephew Antonin Brown - a famous sculptor.
Studied sculpture in Salzburg . Thanks to the monks of the Cistercian monastery in Stams, he traveled to Italy, where he visited Venice, Bologna and Rome and was influenced by Bernini and Michelangelo .
Around 1710, he founded the largest workshop in Prague, where six apprentices worked, the same year his first work in Prague, Vision of St. Luitgard on Charles Bridge , dates back to the same year.
He had five children, but none of them followed in his footsteps.
Matthias Bernard Brown died on February 15, 1738 in Prague from tuberculosis . He was buried in the church of St. Stephen in Nove Mesto .
There is an asteroid named Matthiasbraun (number 6768), discovered in 1983.
Works
- Facade and interiors of the Clam Gallas Palace in Prague
- The interiors of the church of St. Clement at Clementinum in Prague
- Tombstone of Count Schlick in the Cathedral of St. Vita in Prague
- Sculpture of st. Ivo on Charles Bridge in Prague
- Sculpture sun. Lyudmila and St. Wenceslas on Charles Bridge in Prague
- Vrtbovsky Garden in Prague
- West Bohemian Gallery, Pilsen
- Church of the Virgin Mary in Kladruby
- Church of St. Virgin Mary, Stara Boleslav
- Church of St. Wenceslas, Stara Boleslav
- Desert St. Vaclav in Čelakovice
- Church in Lys nad Labem
- Sculptures and statues in Cytolibs
- Mariana Column in Liberec
- Duhcov Castle, Northern Bohemia
- Mariana Pillar in Teplice
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118857169 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana - Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana , 1968.