Bohuslav Schnirch (1845-1901)

Professions: Sculptor

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  ST. WENCESLAS

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  Schnirch Bohuslav (1845 - 1901) An Equestrian

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  Bohuslav Schnirch (1845 - 1901) - Reiterfigur des Heiligen Wenzel,

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Bohuslav Schnirch Biography

(b Prague, 10 Aug 1845; d Prague, 30 Sept 1901). Bohemian sculptor. He was apprenticed in 1863 to the mason E. Grein in Graz, then studied under Professor Bauer at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (1864–6). He went on to Professor Widemann at the Munich Akademie (1866–8) and travelled in Italy (1871–3). Returning to set up a studio in Prague, Schnirch was well equipped, with his knowledge of antiquity and the Renaissance, to collaborate with the architects designing Renaissance Revival buildings in Prague in the 1870s and 1880s. He worked with JOSEF ZÍTEK on the decoration of the National Theatre (Národní Divadlo; completed 1881, destr. 1881, rebuilt 1881–3; see PRAGUE, fig. 5) and of the Rudolfinum (completed 1884), and with JOSEF SCHULZ on the National Museum (Národní Muzeum, 1886–90) on Wenceslas Square. His finest decorative works, the designs (late 1870s) for the three-horse chariots on the National Theatre, were, however, only realized after his death and in a modified form. Schnirch also produced several monuments: the equestrian statue of George of Podebrady, King of Bohemia (1891–6; Podebrady) is outstanding among them. But when he competed with Josef Myslbek for the commission to design the St Wenceslas statue in Prague (1894), Schnirch’s classicism lost out to the latter’s French-orientated academic realism. In his last years Schnirch tried to adjust to the prevailing French style in works such as the tombstone of Doctor Gégr (1898; Prague). He also served for many years on the executive of ARTISTIC FORUM.

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