Ignaz Franz Platzer

Ignaz Franz Platzer , also Ignaz Platzer the Elder , in Czech Ignác František Platzer (born July 6, 1717 in Pilsen , † September 27, 1787 in Prague ) was an Imperial and Royal court sculptor of the Bohemian Late Baroque .

The son of a sculptor also studied sculpture at the Academy in Vienna. Between 1750, after moving to Prague, and 1775 he was the dominant sculptor in Prague and all of Bohemia. His work is shaped by the rococo style in transition to classicism . From 1775 he worked temporarily in Vienna again. A large number of his models and preliminary drawings remained in the family's possession and in 1907 they went to the Prague Museum of Applied Arts, today the National Gallery in Prague .

Works

Giants , courtyard of the Prague Castle

• Heart urn of Empress Amalia Wilhelmine in the crypt of the Capuchin Church , 1742
• Palais Kinsky (Prague) : Figure decorations on the roof of the palace
• Church of St. Nicholas on the Lesser Town of Prague : statues of the main altar
• Strahov Monastery : the sculptures on the high altar of the monastery church of the Assumption of Mary
• Various statues of St. John Nepomuk
• Prague Castle : The Eagle Fountain ( Orlí kašna ) in the III. Courtyard, together with Nicolas Pacassi
• Prague Castle: In the courtyard of Prague Castle a group of wrestling giants, as well as the facade sculptures, 1768
• Schönbrunn Palace Park : Two statues and a group of statues (Mercury as shepherd, Hercules, Brutus and Lucretia)

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Platzer, Ignaz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1870, p. 409 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Peter Prange:  Platzer, Ignaz Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 522 ( digitized version ).

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