Johann Georg Bendl
Johann Georg Bendl (* before 1620; † May 27, 1680 in Prague ) was a Bohemian sculptor of the Baroque period .
Life
Johann Georg Bendl, son of Georg Bendl (* before 1570, † before 1650), who presumably came from Germany and also worked as a sculptor in Prague, is considered one of the leading sculptors of the Counter-Reformation under the influence of the Order of the Jesuits in art history in the second half of the 17th century in Bohemia. It had a similar meaning to Georg Petel or Justus Glescker in southern Germany , artists to whom it owed decisive impulses for design.
Johann Georg Bendl can be traced back to the Old Town of Prague in 1651 and from 1668 as a citizen and house owner in the New Town of Prague . In 1655, after a dispute with the other sculptors, he left the Prague painters' mine and founded the guild of sculptors and carvers. In 1680 he died of the plague that was rampant in Prague .
Relatives
His son Ignaz Johann Bendl († before 1730) was a pupil of Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, known to Bernini, whose main work was the four-element composition created during the Brno Uprising (1692–1699) on behalf of the governor of Moravia, Franz Karl Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky. Well was. His sister was married to the Styrian sculptor Stanislaus Goldschneck .
Appreciation of his works
Johann Georg Bendl's life's work is confirmed by numerous and not always entirely convincing attributions, e.g. Partly increased by works by his father Georg Bendl (* before 1570, † before 1650 in Prague). It is certain that the Marian Column on the Old Town Square in Prague is his main work. This victory symbol of the Counter Reformation , which Bendl on behalf of Emperor Ferdinand III. until it was destroyed in 1918, it was the focus of urban development on the Old Town Square. She became the model for numerous similar Marian columns in Bohemia, e.g. B. in Laun, Kolin, Jungbunzlau, Neustadt an der Mettau etc.
The preserved fragments of the Prague Marian Column testify that Bendl mastered the compositional principles of the Baroque . The figures of the allegorical groups of two do not entangle themselves in mannerist, rigid tension, but rather act side by side in a remarkably dynamic and free contrasting movement. When Bendl erected the Marian Column, he was only about twenty years old. In 1670, Bendl created the Hercules Fountain in the courtyard garden of Prague Castle , and in 1676 the wine column at the end of Charles Bridge .
It is likely that Johann Georg Bendl decorated almost every church in Prague with one of his sculptures . So come z. B. the pulpit of Prague's Tyn Church from his hand, just as he shaped the facade of the Salvator Church with his figures. He created the Hercules Fountain in the Hofgarten from the Hradschin and the equestrian statue of St. Wenceslas from 1680 on Wenceslas Square. Many of his works are no longer preserved today. Johann Georg Bendl is considered the sculptor of baroque Prague.
literature
- Oskar Pollak: Bendl, Johann Georg . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 303-304 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- Heribert Sturm : Biographical lexicon on the history of the Bohemian countries. Published on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum , Vol. 1, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-486-49491-0 , p. 72 f. there: Johann Georg Bendl (around 1630–1680), sculptor; his father Georg Bendl (before 1570 - before 1650 Prague), sculptor, and his son Ignaz Johann Bendl († around 1730), sculptor, medalist with further references and a list of works
- Walter F. Kalina: The Marian columns in Wernstein am Inn (1645/47), Vienna (1664/66), Munich (1637/38) and Prague (1650) , in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 58 (2004), H. 1, pp. 43-61.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter F. Kalina: The Marian columns in Wernstein am Inn (1645/47), Vienna (1664/66), Munich (1637/38) and Prague (1650) , in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege 58 (2004), H. 1, pp. 43-61.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bendl, Johann Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bohemian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1620 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 27, 1680 |
| Place of death | Prague |