Kilián Ignaz Dientzenhofer

Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (; 1 September 1689 – 18 December 1751) was a German Bohemian architect of the Baroque era. He is among the most prolific and renowned architects of his era in Bohemia. He was born into the well known Dientzenhofer family of architects and is considered its most talented and productive member.

Life

Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer was born on 1 September 1689 in Prague, Bohemia. He was the second son of the German architect Christoph Dientzenhofer and Maria Anna Aichbauer (née Lang), widow of the architect Johann Georg Aichbauer the Elder. He graduated from the Jesuit gymnasium in Prague-Malá Strana and in 1709 or 1710 he went abroad, where he got to know the architecture of Germany, France and Italy. He then worked as an apprentice in Vienna for the architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt. In 1716, he returned to Bohemia.

Dientzenhofer married twice; he had six children with Anna Cecília Popelová (1719–1729) and eleven children with Anna Terezia Hendrychová (1729–1751). Dientzenhofer also completely rebuilt the Benedictine monastery in Broumov, which is also a national cultural monument.

Prague Vila Amerika in New Town (1717–1720), nowadays Antonín Dvořák museum Convent of Benedictine Břevnov Monastery (about 1717) St. John of Nepomuk Church in Hradčany (1720–1728) Redesign of Loreta in Hradčany (1723) Baroque redesign of Church of St. Thomas in Malá Strana (1725–1731) Villa Portheimka in Smíchov (1725) Reconstruction of the House at Two Turtle Doves in Malá Strana (1726) Church of St. John of Nepomuk, New Town (1730–1738) St. Bartholomew church in the Old Town (1731) St. Nicholas Church on Old Town Square (1732–1735) Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius in New Town (1730–1736) Completion of St. Nicholas Church in Malá Strana (1737–1751) Goltz-Kinsky Palace on Old Town Square (1755–1765) Sylva-Taroucca Palace in New Town (probably; 1743–1751)

Eastern Bohemia Town hall in Police nad Metují (probably; 1718) Church of All Saints in Heřmánkovice (1722–1726) Church of St. Margaret the Virgin in Šonov (1724–1726) Church of St. Procopius in Bezděkov nad Metují (1724–1727) Church of St. Anne in Vižňov (1724–1727) Benedictine monastery in Broumov (1727–1735) Church of St. Wenceslaus in Broumov (1728–1729) Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows in Hlavňov (1732–1733) Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Božanov (1735–1740) Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Hořice (1738–1748) Sloupno Castle (1748) Meziměstí Castle (1750)

Other places Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Plánice (1717–1726) St. Jadwiga's Basilica, Legnickie Pole (1719–1733) Ploskovice Chateau (probably; 1720–1730) Church of St. Adalbert in Počaply (1724–1726) Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Karlovy Vary (1729–1730) Church of St. Clement in Odolena Voda (1733–1735) Chapel of Blessed Podiven in Stará Boleslav (1738) Cistercian monastery in Plasy (1739) Church of St. Wenceslaus in Úterý (1747) Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Přeštice (1750–1775)