Johann Georg Bendl
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Johann-Georg Bendl (Czech pronunciation: .
He was the son of the
Works
The wooden pulpit (since destroyed) of the St. Wenceslas Church (of the Augustinian Order) in Prague, was probably one of his earliest works. He also sculpted the pulpit in the church Kostel Panny Marie pod Řetězem in the Prague district Malá Strana. All the most important churches in Prague eventually would order one or more statues.
In 1648 he sculpted the statues for side chapels in the
He was commissioned in 1650 by
His monumental
The high-quality bronzed statues of St. Jerome and Mary Magdalen in the Chapel of St. Vincent Ferrer (
In 1662 he sculpted the statue of
In 1670 he sculpted the Hercules and Cerberus fountain for the imperial garden in the Belvedere of the same castle, setting again a stylistic example for Bohemian sculpture. He sculpted a statue of a saint for the high altar of St. Stephen's Church in 1678. His last known works are two statues of the national patron saint Saint Wenceslaus (between 1676 and 1678), one on a column near the Charles Bridge and an equestrian statue on Wenceslas Square (transferred to Vyšehrad in 1879).
He is considered the first important Bohemian Baroque sculptor. His sculptural style was imitated by many successors, and some of his statues can be seen at the National Gallery in the St. George Convent in the Prague Castle.
See also
References
- Benezit E. - Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs - Librairie Gründ, Paris, 1976; ISBN 2-7000-0149-4(in French)
- Turner J. - ISBN 1-884446-00-0