Karl Joseph Hiernle
Karl Joseph Hiernle (also: Carl Joseph Hiernle * to 1693, † before February 28, 1748 in Prague ) was a sculptor and carver of Baroque .
Career
Karl Joseph Hiernle probably came from the Landshut family of sculptors and carvers. He probably completed an apprenticeship in the workshops of Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff and Mathias Wenzel Jäckel . He received major commissions from Braunau abbot Othmar Daniel Zinke for the monastic buildings in Wahlstadt, Broumov, Břevnov and Hrdly, which were led by Braunau monastery builder Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer .
The sculptor Franz Hiernle , who mainly worked in Moravia , was the son of Karl Joseph Hiernle.
Works
- Monastery church in Wahlstatt : stone and wooden figures on the facade, the high altar, the reliquaries for the side altars and the organ front (1728–1730).
- Broumov Abbey : Christ on the Mount of Olives and the Annunciation (1730)
- Břevnov monastery : statue of St. Benedict at the portal (1740)
- Žižice Okres Kladno : statue of St. Procopius (1741)
- Hrdly : statue of St. Benedict (1745)
- Kladno : Marian column (1741)
- Museum of Applied Arts in Prague : two statues of the Virgin Mary
Břevnov monastery, statue of St. Benedict
Hrdly, statue of St. Benedict
literature
- Ursula Roehlig: Hiernle, Carl Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 111 ( digitized version ).
Footnotes
- ↑ according to NDB vol. 9, p. 111 the first name is "Lorenz Wenzel"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hiernle, Karl Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hiernle, Carl Joseph; Hiernle, Karl Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian baroque sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1693 |
| DATE OF DEATH | before February 28, 1748 |
| Place of death | Prague |