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Urbanski [Urbansky], Jan Jerzy [Jan Jirí]
(b Chlumec in the Usti district on the Elbe, c. 1675; d c. 1738). Bohemian sculptor, active in Silesia. He was a pupil of Jan Brokof in Prague (1693–7); after a disagreement with his master, he moved to Bautzen, where in 1704 he gained a master’s degree. In 1708 he settled in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland), where he carved for the cathedral alabaster reliefs on the pulpit (1719–23), and also on the funerary monuments of Bishop Gottfried and Bishop Nanker (1723–4). He also executed lime and gilt figures of the Fathers of the Church for the presbytery balustrade. For St Mary Magdalene, Breslau, he made an organ (1722–5; destr.). Urbanski sculpted several sandstone statues of St John of Nepomuk: one (1723) to stand in front of the church of St Matthew, and one (1724) for the monastery at Jasna Góra in Czestochowa, Poland. In 1726 he carved a wooden altarpiece with a Pietà for the church of Corpus Christi, Breslau (the altar was destroyed in 1945 but the Pietà survived); and between 1727 and 1729, an organ for the Evangelical church of God’s Grace in Hirschberg (now Jelenia Góra, Poland). Urbanski executed another sandstone statue of St John of Nepomuk (1730–32) to stand in front of Holy Cross Church, Breslau. His last works were wooden sculptures for the stalls and the high altar (1735–8) in the Benedictine church in Lüben (now Lubin, Poland). Urbanski’s art is representative of Bohemian Baroque in Silesia and characterized by pathos inspired by the work of Brokof and Gianlorenzo Bernini.
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