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Związki Johanna Bernharda Fischera von Erlach ze Śląskiem w świetle źródeł

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Wojtyła A.

Biuletyn Historii Sztuki

2009

vol. 71

issue 1-2

57-75

This article is intended to present and discuss sources discovered by the author that confirm contacts between the imperial architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach with the Silesian court of bishop Franz Ludwig von Neuburg. These connections were not limited to the composing of plans for the bisshop’s mausoleum (known as the Elector’s Chapel) in Breslau (since 1945 Wrocław) Cathedral, but – as had been previously assumed – they embraced artistic supervision of this construction, for the duration of a number of years, as well as work on the chapel’s interior design and furnishing. As is revealed by accounts, in thge years 1716-21, an ‘award’ was made to Fischer von Erlach for his ‘direction’ and ‘inspection’ of ‘the building of the Elector’s Chapel’. It is difficult to establish on the basis of these documents, if the architect, preoccupied at this time with the Karlskirche in Vienna, could have visited Breslau frequently , or if he in fact supervised the construction through the employing of artists sent from Vienna, furnished with instructions and specific, pre-prepared designs. The building’s extension was, in the final count, to be postponed until completion of the Elector’s Chapel. The investigative results presented here reveal the need to take into closer account the phenomenon of ‘architecture by correspondence’ (i.e. the conveyed design) in researching Baroque art in Silesia.

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Związki Johanna Bernharda Fischera von Erlach ze Śląskiem w świetle źródeł