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(1) Ondrej Filip [Andreas Philipp] Quitainer
(b Frydlant, North Moravia, 30 Nov 1679; d Prague, 2 July 1729). He was probably already a trained sculptor when he arrived in Prague, at some time after 1700. In 1707 he worked on three sculptures for the Breznice portal of the Svatá Hora [Holy Mount] shrine at Príbram. In 1709–12 he worked on the decoration of Schloss Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg, where he was probably taken by Donato Giuseppe Frisoni (1683–1735), a Prague-based stuccoist and architect, who was in charge of the works. Quitainer probably collaborated on the decoration of the staircase of the Riesenbau (1710) with figures of Atlas and massively muscular sphinxes. Returning to Prague, he executed statues of a rather old-fashioned form for St Thomas’s church in the Malá Strana [Little Quarter]. The wood models that he made in 1720–21 for silver statues for the high altar were placed on the side altars. These statues, from an era when Prague Baroque was at its height, are imposing in their austerity, in which respect they approach the work of Ferdinand Maximilián Brokof.
Part of the Quitainer family
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