Czech sculptor
Bust of M.B.Braun in
Jarom??
Matthias Bernard Braun
(
Czech
:
Matya? Bernard Braun
, 24 February 1684 in
Sautens
near
Innsbruck
– 15 February 1738 in
Prague
) was a
sculptor
and carver active in the
Czech lands
, one of the most prominent late
baroque
style sculptors in the area.
Matthias Bernard Braun was born as the fifth child of Jacob Braun and Magdalene born Neureuter. He apprenticed in
Austria
(
Salzburg
) and
Italy
(
Venice
,
Bologna
,
Rome
). And in his work, it is the Italian influence, that is the most prominent. He was inspired by
Michelangelo Buonarroti
,
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
and by the Venetian sculptural school of the 17th century and thus became a great propagator of the Italian-provenience sculpture in the Central-European context.
Some time before 1710, Braun came to visit
Prague
, already as a full-fledged artist creating from
sandstone
, and soon he became domestic in
Bohemia
. He found his wife and friends there, and became a citizen to the New Town of Prague. Already his first work - the
statuary of the Vision of St. Luthgard
(Czech:
Vid?ni sv. Luitgardy
) from 1710, situated on
Charles Bridge
in Prague - brought to him much attention and many new orders. Braun then was able to found the biggest workshop in Prague, employing six journeymen and having an income of 900 golden a year around 1725. Soon, he himself could not manage the number of new commissions for Prague palaces, gardens, churches and many other places in Bohemia, a situation worsened by the progressing
tuberculosis
. That is why he only created the designs and models, had his cooperators realize them and completed the work into the final appearance. He had five children, none of which continued his work, though. He died in Prague in 1738.
Matthias Braun is probably the most famous for his collection of the
allegories of
Virtues
and
Vices
situated at the
Kuks
Hospital in Bohemia, a commission of count
Franti?ek Antonin ?pork
. Other notable sculptures include: the
Bethlehem
- monumental statues chiselled directly in sandstone rocks near Kuks, forty pitoresque statues of dwarfs at the Kuks race-course, several statuaries at
Charles Bridge
in Prague, statues in
St. Kliment's Church
in Prague, the stone pillar of the
Holy Trinity
in
Teplice
, the sculptures in the interior of
Czernin
palace (Prague), and many others.
There is an asteroid named Mathiasbraun (number 6768), discovered in 1983.
See also
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External links
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Books about Braun
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- Neumann, Jaromir:
?esky barok
. Praha: Odeon 1968, 2.vyd. 1975
- Poche, Emanuel:
Matya? Bernard Braun, socha? ?eskeho baroka a jeho dilna
. Praha: Odeon 1986
- Bla?i?ek, Old?ich J.: Socha?stvi vrcholneho baroka v ?echach, v:
D?jiny ?eskeho vytvarneho um?ni
, dil II/2. Praha 1989
- Ko?an, Ivo:
Karl?v most
. Praha: Odeon 1989.
- Hoferica, Jilji:
3x Mathias Bernard Braun
. Praha 2012
- Hoferica Jilji: Mathias Braun a Georg Patzak. Praha 2013
- Kdo byl kdo v na?ich d?jinach do roku 1918 / (Pavel Augusta … et al.)
(4 ed.). Praha:
Libri
. 1999. p. 49.
ISBN
80-85983-94-X
.
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