Jiří Kroupa : Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt - Part 2

As part of the seminar of the Friends of Fine Arts and Architecture Club, on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 5:00 PM, the second part of a lecture by Professor Jiří Kroupa on one of the most significant Central European Baroque architects, Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt, will take place in auditorium A310.

Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt (*1668 Genoa +1745 Vienna) was an extraordinarily influential Baroque architect, a student of Carlo Fontana, and a contemporary and competitor of the renowned Johann Bernhard Fischer of Erlach, who settled in Vienna in 1694. During his stay in Italy, he thoroughly acquainted himself with the most progressive contemporary architecture, particularly the works of Francesco Borromini and Guarino Guarini, subsequently conveying their remarkable spatial solutions to the Central European environment. It is also noteworthy that Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer likely spent his apprenticeship years with Hildebrandt. He became the imperial court engineer as early as 1701; however, he was appointed as the chief imperial builder only after Fischer's death in 1723. A key phase of Hildebrandt's work for our region is represented primarily by the pair of Viennese churches Maria Treu and St. Peter, which served as a model for the sacred buildings of Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer (the Church of St. Vojtěch in Počaply), along with the unfinished, monumentally revitalized reconstruction of the Göttweig Monastery (from 1719), which influenced the reconstruction of the monastery in Chotěšov by Jakub Auguston Jr. and Petr Pavel Columbani. In castle architecture, he developed French influences, and his castle buildings served as a significant source of inspiration for Central European secular architecture.

Prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (*1951 Brno) is a professor at the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno, where since 1988 he has been teaching the Art History Seminar and dealing with the history of early modern architecture. In 1975, he graduated in art history from the Faculty of Arts, MU and subsequently worked as a specialist at the Museum of Kroměříž Region in Kroměříž (1976-78) and in the graphic collections of the Moravian Gallery in Brno (1978-87).

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