Baroque architecture In Central Europe
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In Central Europe, the baroque period began somewhat later. Although
the Augsburg architect Elias Holl (1573 - 1646) and some theoretists,
including Joseph Furttenbach the Elder already practised the baroque
style, they remained without successors due to the ravages of the
Thirty Years' War. From about 1650 on, construction work resumes,
and secular and ecclesiastical architecture are of equal importance.
During an initial phase, master-masons from southern Switzerland and
northern Italy, the so-called magistri Grigioni and the Lombard
master-masons, particularly the Carlone family from Val d'Intelvi,
dominated the field. However, Austria came soon to develop its own
characteristic baroque style during the last third of the
seventeenth century. Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was
impressed by Bernini. He forged a new Imperial style by compiling
architectural motifs from the entire history, most prominently seen
in his church of St. Charles Borromeo in Vienna. Johann Lucas von
Hildebrandt also had an Italian training. He developed a highly
decorative style, particularly in facade architecture, which exerted
strong influences on southern Germany. |
Frequently, the Southern German baroque is distinguished from the
Northern German baroque, which is more properly the distinction
between the Catholic and the Protestant baroque.
In the Catholic South, the Jesuit church of St. Michael in Munich
was the first to bring Italian style across the Alps. However, its
influence on the further development of church architecture was
rather limited. A much more practical and more adaptable model of
church architecture was provided by the Jesuit church in Dillingen
(1610-17): the wall-pillar church, i.e. a barrel-vaulted nave
accompanied by large open chapels separated by wall-pillars. As
opposed to St. Michael's in Munich, the chapels almost reach the
height of the nave in the wall-pillar church, and their vault
(usually transverse barrel-vaults) springs from the same level as
the main vault of the nave. The chapels provide ample lighting; seen
from the entrance of the church, the wall-pillars form a theatrical
setting for the side altars. The wall-pillar church was further
developed by the Vorarlberg school, as well as the master-masons of
Bavaria. The wall-pillar church also integrated well with the hall
church model of the German late Gothic age. The wall-pillar church
continued to be used throughout the eighteenth century (e.g., even
in the early neo-classical church of Rot a der Rot), and early
wall-pillar churches could easily be refurbished by re-decoration
without any structural changes, e.g., the church at Dillingen.
However, the Catholic South also received influences from other
sources, e.g., the so-called radical baroque of Bohemia. The radical
baroque of Christoph Dientzenhofer and his son Kilian Ignaz
Dientzenhofer, both residing at Prague, was inspired by examples
from northern Italy, particularly by the works of Guarino Guarini.
It is characterized by the curvature of walls and intersection of
oval spaces. While some Bohemian influence is visible in Bavaria's
most prominent architect of the period, Johann Michael Fischer,
e.g., in the curved balconies of some of his earlier wall-pillar
churches, the works of Balthasar Neumann are generally considered to
be the final synthesis of Bohemian and German traditions.
Protestant sacred architecture was of lesser importance during the
baroque, and produced only a few works of prime importance,
particularly the Frauenkirche in Dresden. Architectural theory was
more lively in the north than in the south of Germany, e.g.,
Leonhard Christoph Sturm's edition of Nikolaus Goldmann, but Sturm's
theoretical considerations (e.g., on Protestant church architecture)
never really made it to practical application. In the south, theory
essentially reduced to the use of buildings and elements from
illustrated books and engravings as a prototype.
Palace architecture was equally important both in the Catholic South
and the Protestant North. After an initial phase when Italian
architects and influences dominated (Vienna, Rastatt), French
influence prevailed from the second decennium of the eighteenth
century onwards. The French model is characterized by the
horseshoe-like layout enclosing a cour d'honneur (courtyard) on the
town side (chateau entre cour et jardin), whereas the Italian (and
also Austrian) scheme presents a block-like villa. The principal
achievements of German Palace architecture, often worked out in
close collaboration of several architects, provide a synthesis of
Austro-Italian and French models. The most outstanding palace which
blends Austro-Italian and French influences into a completely new
type of building is the residence at Würzburg. While its general
layout is the horseshoe-like French plan, it encloses interior
courtyards. Its facades combine Lucas von Hildebrandt's love of
decoration with French-style classical orders in two superimposed
stories; its interior features the famous Austrian "imperial
staircase", but also a French-type enfilade of rooms on the garden
side, inspired by the "apartment semi-double" layout of French
castles. |
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