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(1) Hieronymus [Jeronym] Kohl
(b Horní Slavkov, nr Loket, ?1632 or 1635; d Prague, 24 May 1709). He went to Prague from northern Bohemia and was apprenticed to Ernst Johann Heidelberger, whose treatment of draperies in sharp folds he adopted. This is apparent in such works as his carved wood statue of St Ursula (1667), placed above the gate of the Ursuline convent in the Nové Mesto area of Prague, his group of 18 wooden sculptures of saints (c. 1685), at the Benedictine church of St Margaret, Prague-Brevnov, and his stone statue of St Thomas (1684), on the side elevation of St Thomas in the Lesser Quarter of the city. His statues gradually became more massive in construction. Examples are St Augustine, in a niche over the doorway to St Thomas, and the atlantids carved by Kohl for the well-house by Francesco della Torre (d 1687) in the second courtyard of Prague Castle (both stone, 1686). In his role as court sculptor he was sometimes called upon to carry out repair and refurbishment works at Prague Castle and to design castra doloris for the obsequies of members of the Imperial family and prominent nobles, including that made for the Cernín family in 1682. Among his pupils was Frantisek Preiss, the best wood-carver of the next generation, who collaborated with Kohl and the cabinetmaker Marek Nonnenmacher on the high altar and two subsidiary altars for St Nicholas at Louny in 1700–08. The models for this ambitious commission survive (Prague, N.G., Convent of St George).
Part of the Kohl family
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