Johann-Georg Bendl

Who was Johann-Georg Bendl?

Johann-Georg Bendl was a Baroque sculptor mainly at work in Prague. He was the son of the Bohemian sculptor Georg Bendl.

The wooden pulpit of the St. Wenceslas church in Prague was probably one of his earliest works. He also sculpted the pulpit in the church Kostel Panny Marie pod Řetězem in the Prague district Malá Strana.

All the most important churches in Prague eventually would order one or more statues.

In 1648 he sculpted the statues for side chapels in the Church of Our Lady of Týn, the church on the main square of Prague.

He decorated the dome of the St. Salvator church of the Jesuit Order in Prague with stucco in the period 1648-1649. This would later bring in new orders from these Jesuits in 1655-1660 to sculpt the stone statues for the portico and the pediment of the façade; at the end of his life, in 1675, he would carve a series of wooden statues of Apostles for confessionals for the same church.

Around 1650 he sculpted a number of wooden angels for the Servite Order, now on display in St. George's Convent, National Gallery in Prague.

Again in 1650 he was asked to make the statues for the main altar of the Church of the Holy Cross.