The Ecclesiastical Rococo in Austria, Bohemia, and Germany

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The Ecclesiastical Rococo in Austria, Bohemia,
and Germany

• Italian Precedent Transformed

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St. Charles Borromeus, Vienna, by J.B.Fischer von
Erlach, 1713-15
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St. Charles Borromeus
S. Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 1565, by Andrea
Palladio
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Is it rococo or baroque?
Architecture in the Austro-Hungarian empire after
the Thirty Years War often exhibited the
qualities of Machtkunst.
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St. Nicholas on the Small Side, Prague (Bohemia)

• 1702-51 designed by
• Christoph Dientzenhofer,
• dome completed by
• Killian Ignaz Dientzenhofer

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Is it rococo or baroque?
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Jesuit Church of St. Nicholas on the Small Side,
Prague
Church of Il Gesu, Rome
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The curvilinearity of the illusionistic paintings
in combination with the actual curvilinear
rhythms of the architecture create a kind of
warpage of the space.
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The Asam Brothers at Weltenburg and Rohr

• Religious Experience Evoked
• through Material

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The Benedictine Abbey Church of Sts. Martin and
George at Weltenburg (Bavaria)

• 1716-1751 by Cosmas Damian Asam with Egid Quirin
  Asam

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The façade of the abbey church
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Former Augustinian Abbey Church of the Assumption
of the Virgin at Rohr (Bavaria)

• 1717-19 by Cosmas Damian Asam with Egid Quirin
  Asam

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The Pilgrimage Church of the Fourteen Saints
(Vierzehnheiligen) (Bavaria)

• 1742ff by Balthasar Neumann

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