Everything about Ferdinand Brokoff totally explained
Ferdinand Maxmilian Brokoff (
Czech:
Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokoff,
12 September,
1688 in Červený Hrádek near
Chomutov,
Bohemia -
8 March,
1731 in
Prague) was a
sculptor and carver of the
Baroque era.
He was born as the second son of Elisabeth and
Jan Brokoff, and soon his talent surpassed his older brother,
Michael Brokoff, as well as his father. Ferdinand Brokoff's work is often equalized in importance with the work of
Matthias Braun. In the beginning he mostly helped his father but since
1708 he worked independently and two years later, in the age of 22, he acquired his reputation for work on several
statues on the
Charles Bridge in Prague (the statuary of
St. Adalbert, the statue of
St. Gaetano, the sculpture group of
Francis Borgia, the statues of
St. Ignatius and
Francis Xaverius, statuary of
Saints John of Matha, Felix of Valois and Ivo including the famous statue of Turk, etc).
Around
1714 Ferdinand Brokoff began to cooperate with the
Austrian architect
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and moved to
Vienna (while still working for Prague commissions, too) where he worked on the church of St. Charles Borromei. He was also active in
Silesia (
Wrocław), but had to come back to Prague soon, owing to progressing
tuberculosis. Nevertheless, he continued to sculpt in Prague and made some significant pieces during the
1720s, such as the monumental statuary and pillar at the Hradčany square (
Hradčanské náměstí,
1726). Around that time (
1722) he was also supposed to create 13 pieces of the
Calvary to put in the niches of the New Castle Stairway, a project that was never realized.
Towards the end of his life, the illness gradually prevented him from working alone, thus he only created the designs and models and had them realized by his younger cooperators.
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