The new exhibition at the National Museum in Wrocław showcases two impressive works by the sculptor Johann Georg Urbansky, who was educated in Prague and worked in Wrocław in the first three decades of the 18th century. These groups of sculptures were created almost at the same time for the places of worship belonging to the two main religions in the capital city of Silesia – the Catholic Cathedral of St John the Baptist, and the Lutheran church of St Mary Magdalene in Wrocław.

The first, a group of life-size figures originally placed on the baluster of the presbytery in Wrocław Cathedral, representing four Church Fathers, are works of world class, highly expressive as well as elegant and refined. The other work is (or rather was) an organ screen, once adorning the Church of St Mary Magdalene, dismantled at the end of the 19th century, and whose sculpted decorative elements were transferred to the old Museum of Artistic Crafts and Antiquities in Wrocław.

The exhibition is available from 13 June to 29 October 2023.

Curators of the exhibition: Piotr Oszczanowski, Barbara Andruszkiewicz.

More information: https://mnwr.pl/en/baroque-heroes-wroclaw-sculptures-by-johann-georg-urbansky-from-the-1720s/