Pocta kláštereckým Brokoffum / Tribute to Klášterec Brokoffs - Klášterec nad Ohrí (North-West Bohemia)
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Bronze lifesize statue of armored medieval knight holding shield with inscription, located in Dr. E. Beneš Square in Klášterec nad Ohrí, is an unusual memorial dedicated to famous Baroque artist Jan Brokoff and his descendants.
Waymark Code: WM12DBA
Location: Ústecký kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/04/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member jhuoni
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Bronze lifesize statue of armored medieval knight holding shield with inscription, located in Dr. E. Beneš Square in Klášterec nad Ohrí, is an unusual memorial dedicated to famous Baroque artist Jan Brokoff and his descendants.

Jan Brokoff also known as Johann Brokoff (June 23, 1652 – December 28, 1718) was a Baroque-era sculptor and carver. Brokoff was of Carpathian German origin, born in Spišská Sobota, today in Slovakia, then in Royal Hungary, and later working and living in Bohemia. He was the father of the sculptors Michael Brokoff and Ferdinand Brokoff. Brokoff moved from Hungary and worked at various places mainly in western Bohemia in 1675. Three years later, in 1692 he settled in Prague and gained burgher rights in Prague's Staré mesto (Old Town). He and his wife Elisabeth (Czech: Eliška) born Spingler had four children - sons, Michal Jan Josef, Ferdinand Maxmilian and Antonin Sebastian, and a daughter, Anna Eleonora. Two of the sons continued in his work (and the younger, Ferdinand Maxmilian, becoming the more prominent), the third son, Antonín Sebastian, later became the court poet in Vienna. Jan Brokoff died in Prague. [wiki]

Jan Brokoff spent the years 1685–1687 working on the Michael Oswald Count of Thun-Hohenstein demesne in Klášterec nad Ohrí. Two of his sons, Jan Josef Michal Brokoff and Ferdinand Maxmilián Brokoff, later also worked as important Baroque sculptors. The younger Ferdinand Maximilian became the most prominent figure in the Brokoff's family.

The shield bears following inscription in Czech:

V tomto meste pusobil
ve službách
Michaela Oswalda Thuna
v letech 1685-1687
sochar Jan Brokoff

Narodil se zde 28.4.1686
Jan Josef Michal Brokoff

a na nedalekém
Cerveném Hrádku
byl pak krátce nato
12.9.1688 pokrten
Ferdinand Maxmilián
Brokoff

Translation to English:

In this town worked
in service of
Michael Oswald Thun
in the years 1685-1687
sculptor Jan Brokoff

Was born here on April 28, 1686
Jan Josef Michal Brokoff

and at nearby
Cervený Hrádek
was shortly afterwards
12.9.1688 baptized
Ferdinand Maxmilián
Brokoff

The memorial, unveiled in 2006, is a work of Klášterec sculptor and art-restorer Karel Meloun.

Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: [Web Link]

Location: Dr. E. Beneš Square in Klášterec nad Ohří

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