Jan Brokoff
Image:Charles Bridge [St Barbara Margaret Elizabeth.jpg|thumb|Statues of Saints Barbara, Margaret and Elizabeth, [Charles Bridge|Statues of Saints Barbara, Margaret and Elizabeth] on Charles Bridge, Prague (1707)]
Jan Brokoff, also known as Johann Brokoff, was a baroque-era sculptor and woodcarver.
Brokoff was of Carpathian German origin, born in Georgenberg, Royal Hungary today Spišská Sobota in Slovakia, and later working and living in Bohemia. He was the father of the sculptors Michael Brokoff and Ferdinand Brokoff.
In 1675, Brokoff moved from Hungary and worked at various places mainly in western Bohemia. Three years later, in 1692, he settled in Prague and gained burgher rights in Prague's Staré město. He and his wife Elisabeth born Spingler had four children–sons, Michal Jan Josef, Ferdinand Maxmilian and Antonin Sebastian, and a daughter, Anna Eleonora. Two of the sons continued in his work, the third son, Antonín Sebastian, later became the court poet in Vienna. Jan Brokoff died in Prague.
Work
[Image:Kno triton brokoff.jpg|thumb|left|Statue of Triton in Klášterec nad Ohří castle park - 1685]Image:John of Nepomuk.jpg|thumb|left|Statue of John of Nepomuk on the Charles Bridge, Prague
The works attributed to him are of two kinds: some he made himself, others he only designed and let his son Ferdinand actually make them. Brokoff created the statuary of Lamenting of the Christ placed on the Charles Bridge in 1695, however, this sculpture has been later moved to the Monastery of the Gracious Sisters of Charles Borromei under the Petřín Hill in Prague.
Other notable pieces include: a wooden model of the statue of John of Nepomuk, according to which the bronze statue, that is now on Charles Bridge, has been cast, statues of St. Joseph and Christening of the Lord on Charles Bridge and many other plastics around Bohemia such as the sculpture in the church of St. Barbara in Manětín or statues which decorate castles and chateaux in Klášterec nad Ohří, Červený Hrádek Chateau near Jirkov, Libochovice, Broumov Monastery, etc.