Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (; 1 September 1689 – 18 December 1751) was a Czech architect of the Baroque era. Among Dientzenhofer's Prague buildings are the churches of Saint John of Nepomuk and Saint Nicholas, as well as the Vila Amerika and the Kinský Palace. He also built numerous churches and secular buildings in other towns of Bohemia. Many of his later projects were realized by his pupil and son-in-law Anselmo Martino Lurago. Biography He was the fifth son of the German architect Christoph Dientzenhofer and the Bohemian-German Maria Anna Aichbauer (née Lang), widow of the architect Johann Georg Achbauer the Elder, and a member of the well known Dientzenhofer family of architects. As an architect he co-operated with his father and with Jan Santini Aichel. Projects In Prague Vila Amerika, Nové Město (1717–1720), nowadays Antonín Dvořák museum Convent of Benedictine Břevnov Monastery (about 1717) St. John of Nepomuk Church in Hradčany, Kanovnická str. (1720–1728) Redesign of Loreta in Hradčany (1723) Baroque redesign of Church of St. Thomas in Malá Strana (1725–1731) Villa Portheimka in Smíchov, Štefánikova str. (1725) House By Two Turtle Doves, Nosticova 5 (1726) Church of St. John of Nepomuk, Vyšehradská str. (1730–1739) St. Bartholomew church in the Old Town (1731) St. Nicholas Church on Old Town Square (1732–1735) Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Resslova str. (1730–1740) Completion of St. Nicholas Church in Malá Strana (1737–1751) Goltz-Kinsky Palace on Old Town Square (1755–1765) Piccolomini Palace (Savarin), Na Příkopě 10 (1743–1751) Outside of Prague Church of All Saints in Heřmánkovice (1722–1726) Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Karlovy Vary (1729–1730) Church of St. Lawrence in Chodov Ploskovice Castle Meziměstí Castle Church of St. Clement in Odolena Voda (1733–1735) Monastery of St. Wenceslaus in Broumov (1727–1735) Cistercian Monastery, Plasy (1739) Literature Milada Vilimkova, Johannes Brucker: Dientzenhofer. Eine bayerische Baumeisterfamilie in der Barockzeit. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Bd. 3, S. 650-51 Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte der böhmischen Länder, Band I., S. 247-248, Hans Zimmer: Die Dientzenhofer. Ein bayerisches Baumeistergeschlecht in der Zeit des Barock. Rosenheim 1976 Joachim Bahlcke u. a.: Handbuch der historischen Stätten Böhmen und Mähren, Kröner-Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, Dehio-Handbuch der Kunstdenkmäler in Polen Schlesien, München / Berlin 2005, Erhard Gorys: DuMont Kunst-Reiseführer Tschechische Republik, Knaurs Kunstführer Tschechische Republik, Tichy, Franz: Studie zu Sakralbauten des Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. München 1996, References External links Prague Information Service ADB entry 1689 births 1751 deaths Architects from Prague German Bohemian people