Johann Georg Urbansky
Johann Georg Urbansky (also Johann George Urbansky ; Czech Jan Jiří Urbansky ; * 1675 in Kulm ; † 1738 ) was a Bohemian sculptor and alabaster carver who mainly worked in Silesia .
Life
Urbansky was a student of the sculptor Johann Brokoff in Prague from 1693 . Because of disputes with his teacher, he went to Bautzen in 1697 , where he received his apprenticeship certificate from Theodor Pausewein. From 1718 he is occupied in Breslau, where he worked with Franz Joseph Mangoldt and Johann Albrecht Siegwitz , among others .
Works (selection)
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Wroclaw :
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Wroclaw Cathedral :
- Marble pulpit based on a design by Jesuit Christoph Tausch (1723; together with Johann Adam Karinger )
- Sculptures of St. Gregory and Hieronymus (1727, at the rood screen )
- Epitaph of the bishops Gottfried (Bishop of Breslau) and Nanker (1723)
- St. Maria Magdalena : carving of the baroque organ prospect (1722–1724)
- St. Vincent Church : Conversion of the Marienkapelle into a mausoleum for the Premonstratensian Abbot Ferdinand v. Hochberg based on a design by Christoph Hackner (1723–1727 together with Johann Albrecht Siegwitz, Johann Adam Karinger and Ignaz Albrecht Provisore, among others )
- City parish church Maria Himmelfahrt: Contribution to the Baroque transformation (1730)
- Nepomuk monument at the Kreuzkirche based on a design by Christoph Tausch (1730–1732, together with Johann Albrecht Siegwitz and Johann Adam Karinger)
- Nepomuk monument at Matthias Church (1723)
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Wroclaw Cathedral :
- Hirschberg , Hl. Kreuz: figurative decoration of the high altar (1727–1729; attributed )
- Striegau , parish church St. Peter and Paul: side altar figures of St. Gertrud and Scholastika (1720–1725, attributed to)
- Groß Tinz : Statue of the Bohemian national saint Johannes Nepomuk in front of the churchyard wall as a donation of the Johanniter-Ordenskomtur Johann Joseph von Götzen (1733)
literature
- Urbansky, Johann Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 33 : Theodotos vacation . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1939, p. 592 .
- Adam Wie̜cek: Jan Jerzy Urbański. Study o rzeźbie wrocławskiej pierwszej połowy XVIII stulecia . Zakład Narodowy Imienia Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Wroclaw 1963.
- Adam Wie̜cek: Jan Jiří Urbanský český sochař ve Slezsku . In: Umění 12, 1964, pp. 135–150.
- Dehio Handbook of Art Monuments in Poland. Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03109-X , pp. 70, 391, 880, 973, 1039f., 1055, 1060, 1071, 1112, 1197.
Individual evidence
- ^ Jerzy Kowalczyk: Urbański [Urbansky], Jan Jerzy [Jan Jiří] . In: Grove Dictionary of Art . Macmillan, Basingstoke, England, doi : 10.1093 / gao / 9781884446054.article.T087340 (English, beginning of article).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Urbansky, Johann Georg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Urbansky, Johann George; Urbansky, Jan Jiří (Czech) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baroque sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1675 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kulm |
DATE OF DEATH | 1738 |