Ignaz Rohrbach

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Plague column on the main square of Chrudim

Ignaz Rohrbach (Czech: Ignác Rohrbach ; * 1691 in Kaiserswalde , County Glatz ; † October 25, 1747 in Chrudim ) was a German sculptor who worked in Eastern Bohemia .

Life

Ignaz Rohrbach is considered to be the main representative of the East Bohemian early baroque. After training as a sculptor with Franz Pacák , a student of the sculptor Matthias Bernhard Braun , Rohrbach worked from 1724 in the workshop of the sculptor Johann Paul Czechpauer ( Jan Pavel Čechpauer ) in Chrudim in East Bohemia. After Czechpauer's death around 1726 he completed several of the works he had begun. He continued his workshop and married the widow he left behind.

Works

Ignaz Rohrbach created numerous works for churches and castles in Eastern Bohemia. Some are in museums.

  • Zelená Hora pilgrimage church : main altar 1725–1727 (started by J. Czechpauer )
  • Lázně Bohdaneč , St. Mary Magdalene Church: sculptural interior
  • Kolín , St. Bartholomew's Church: baroque altars
  • Chrudim : plague column on the main square (started by J. Czechpauer )
  • Pohled , St. Andreas Church: Two carved figures of Christ
  • Pardubice , St. Bartholomew's Cathedral: Calvary for the side chapel (1735)
  • Havlíčkův Brod , Regional Museum: Calvary sculpture, created around 1735 for the chapel of the Úhrov Castle
  • Pardubice , Výchočeské Muzeum: sculptures made of linden wood of St. Johannes von Nepomuk and Florian, from the period 1735 to 1740.
  • Dašice , carvings for the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin

literature

  • Prokop Toman: Nový slovník československých výtvarných umělců . Prague 1950, Vol. II, p. 367

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arno Herzig , Małgorzata Ruchniewicz : History of the Glatzer country . Hamburg-Wrocław 2006. ISBN 3-934632-12-2 , p. 185
  2. ↑ A. Alsterová: Czech Pauer, John Paul. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Vol. 23, p. 294
  3. ↑ Turistická mapa Orlické hory a podhůří , Kartographie Praha, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Rohrbach, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohrbach, Ignác (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baroque sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserswalde , County of Glatz
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1747
Place of death Chrudim