Johann Paul Czechpauer

Johann Paul Czechpauer (also: Czechbauer ; Zechbauer ; Zöhbaur ; Czech: Jan Pavel Čechpauer ; † around 1726 in Chrudim , Bohemia ) was a sculptor , stonemason and wood carver .

Life

Zelená Hora pilgrimage church: main altar

Johann Paul Czechpauer was a student of the Kuttenberg sculptor Franz Martin Katterbauer . From 1717 he worked in Chrudim, where he set up his own workshop. His main work is the plague column "Transfiguration of Christ" on the Ring in Chrudim, which was completed after his death by his colleague Ignaz Rohrbach . After Czechpauer's untimely death around 1726, Ignaz Rohrbach continued the workshop and married his widow.

Together with Giovani Battista Bulla, the brothers Georg Pacák and Franz Pacák as well as Ignaz Rohrbach, Johann Paul Czechpauer belongs to the circle of the sculptor Matthias Bernhard Braun .

Works

• Chrudim:
  • Plague column "Transfiguration of Christ" on the Ring (1724–1726; completed by Ignaz Rohrbach )
  • Lichovský house, sculptures and plastering
  • Sculpture group behind the Assumption Church
  • Ecce Homo and Our Lady of Sorrows, in front of the Capuchin Church
• Zelená Hora pilgrimage church : main altar 1725–1727 (completed by Ignaz Rohrbach )
• Choltice : four sculptures in front of the Choltice Castle
• Königgrätz : Carvings of the main altar of the St. Antonius Church.
• He created other works for Chlumetz

literature

• A. Alsterová: Czechpauer (Čechpauer; Czechbauer; Zechbauer; Zöhbaur), Johann Paul . In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Vol. 23, p. 294