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3 unusual facts about Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach


Gesamtkunstwerk

A later example occurs in the Baroque, for instance the work of the Austrian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, who was an architect and sculptor, as well as an architectural historian.

Jan Fischer

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (sometimes referred to also like Jan Fischer z Erlachu) Austrian architect of the Baroque period

Johann Ernst von Thun

The archbishop is best remembered as patron of the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a leader of Austrian Baroque church architecture.


Jan de Witte

The Dominican church, resembling to some degree and probably also inspired by the works of Fischer von Erlach and Guarini, has the characteristic late Baroque form of a centrally-placed longitudinal oval construction, crowned with an elliptic dome.

Lednice

The estate house – designed and furbished by baroque architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Domenico Martinelli, and Anton Johan Ospel – proclaimed rural luxury on the grandest scale.


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