Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer

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Kilián Ignác Dienzenhofer (1689–1751) was an important Czech architect of the Baroque era. He was the fifth son of famous architect Kryštof Dientzenhofer and a member of the famous Dientzenhofer family of architects. As architect he cooperated with his father and with Giovanni Santini. Among his buildings buildings are Church of St. John Nepomucene, Church of St. Nicholas, Vila Amerika and Goltz-Kinsky Palace in Prague. He also built numerous churches and secular buildings in other towns of Bohemia. Many of his later projects were realized by his pupil and son-in-law Anselmo Martino Lurago.

[edit] Projects

[edit] In Prague

• Vila Amerika, Nove Mesto (1717-1720), nowadays Antonín Dvořák museum
• Convent of Benedictine Monastery in Břevnov (about 1717)
• St. John Nepomuk church in Hradčany, Kanovnicka str. (1720–28)
• Redesign of st. Loreto (Loreta) in Hradčany (1723)
• Baroque redesign of church st. Thomas (sv. Tomáše) in Mala Strana (1725-31)
• Villa Portheimka in Smíchov, Štefánikova str. (1725)
• Church of st. John Nepomuk, Vyšehradska str. (1730–39)
• St. Bartholomew church in the Old Town (1731)
• St. Nicholas church on Old Town Square (1732-35)
• Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodius on Resslově str. (1730–40)
• Completion of St. Nicholas (sv. Mikuláše) church in Mala Strana (1737-51)
• Goltz-Kinsky Palace on Old Town Square (1755-65)
• Piccolomini Palace (Savarin), Na Příkopě 10 (1743-51)

[edit] Outside of Prague

• All Sains Church in Hermankovice (1722–26)
• St. Magdalena Church in Karlovy Vary (1729–1730)
• Castle Ploskovice near Litoměřice
• Castle Meziměstí near Broumov
• Church of st. Clement in Odolena Voda (1733–35)
• St. Vaclav monastery in Broumov (1727- 35)
• Many churches around Broumov
• Cisterian monastery Plasy (1739)