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Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer

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family of architects. He is considered the most talented and productive member of the family. During his life, he designed more than 200 buildings. He co-operated with his father and completed the constructions of another important architect,
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Dientzenhofer married twice; he had six children with Anna Cecília Popelová (1719–1729) and eleven children with Anna Terezia Hendrychová (1729–1751).
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The opposite of Dientzenhofer's top work is the design of rural churches in northeastern Bohemia around the town of
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and Maria Anna Aichbauer (née Lang), widow of the architect Johann Georg Aichbauer the Elder. He graduated from the
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family of architects and is considered its most talented and productive member.
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and in 1709 or 1710 he went abroad, where he got to know the architecture of
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era and his sacral buildings are considered the most beautiful in Bohemia.
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era. He is among the most prolific and renowned architects of his era in
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Reconstruction of the House at Two Turtle Doves in Malá Strana (1726)
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Completion of St. Nicholas Church in Malá Strana (1737–1751)
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Among famous Dientzenhofer's Prague buildings are e.g. the
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Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer was born on 1 September 1689 in
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since 2022. Dientzenhofer also completely rebuilt the
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Church of St. John of Nepomuk, New Town (1730–1738)
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He was born into the well known 14: 809: 732: 639: 422:in New Town (probably; 1743–1751) 299:Broumov group of Baroque churches 183:, the birthplace of Dientzenhofer 543:Church of St. Mary Magdalene in 484:Church of St. Mary Magdalene in 307:Benedictine monastery in Broumov 715:"Benediktinský klášter Broumov" 511: 260:Church of Saint John of Nepomuk 195:. He was the second son of the 179:Aichbauerovský House in Prague- 793:Czech people of German descent 707: 686: 665: 614: 593: 416:on Old Town Square (1755–1765) 390:St. Bartholomew church in the 356:St. John of Nepomuk Church in 35:Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer by 1: 675:(in Czech). iDNES. 2022-01-30 586: 557:Chapel of Blessed Podiven in 622:"Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer" 571:Church of St. Wenceslaus in 229:Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt 7: 453:Church of St. Procopius in 303:national cultural monuments 10: 814: 758:Prague Information Service 748:Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer 739:Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer 536:Church of St. Adalbert in 278:, yet in one case also in 149:Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer 141:Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer 79:Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia 23:Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer 550:Church of St. Clement in 336: 123: 100: 92: 84: 68: 43: 28: 21: 798:Czech Baroque architects 696:(in Czech). CzechTourism 654:(in Czech). 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Jan Vilímek
Prague
Kingdom of Bohemia
Church of St. Nicholas
Kinský Palace
Broumov
Baroque
High Baroque of Bohemia
Czech
German Bohemian
Baroque
Bohemia
Dientzenhofer

Malá Strana
Prague
Bohemia
German
Christoph Dientzenhofer
Jesuit
Malá Strana
Germany
France
Italy
Vienna
Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt
Dientzenhofer
Jan Santini Aichel
High Baroque

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