Jakob Prandtauer
Jacob Prandtauer (* July 16, 1660 ( date of baptism ) in punching in Landeck (Tyrol ), † September 16, 1726 in St. Pölten ) was an Austrian architect. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Baroque architect. His main work is considered the Melk Abbey, on which he worked from 1701 to his death.
Life
Prandtauer was the only son of the mountain farmers Prandtauer Simon and Maria Lentsch. His exact date of birth is not known. However, it was the time of his birth is customary, the baptism the same day or carry the latest in the following days. He was supposed to take over the farm, but his apprenticeship began the age of seventeen at the Maurer Georg Asam Tyrolean Schnann. He spent his years of travel probably in Bavaria and Salzburg, after 1683 Prandtauer in today's Lower Austria. Because his large family had the raids and pillaging not survive in Tulln field to an old aunt in the wake of the Second Siege of Vienna, he moved, like many other West Austrians, Bavaria and Upper Palatinate, in the depopulated country. 1689 died Prandtauer mother, in the probate he is known as " sculptor in St. Pölten in Austria ". He was then in the service of Count Albert Ernst Gurland in whose castle Thalheim. He first created the garden sculptures and cornices, and later a summer house and finally the Chapel. Here he met the maid to the Countess Maria Elisabeth racing Berger, whom he married in this very chapel on July 21, 1692. In the same year he bought a house in the cloister alley in St. Pölten monastery district and was thus subject of the Canons of St. Pölten in 1693 he sought to show his letter to Mason teaching.
In the 1690s created Prandtauer first buildings. First, he was commissioned especially for the redesign existing buildings, his earliest secure work is the conversion of the vicarage of Haitzendorf 1694 on behalf of the congregation Duke castle. He probably also worked on made at this time reconstruction of the castle Ochsenburg and on Schwaighof. Also the increase of the St. Pölten cathedral tower is attributed Prandtauer.
1696 Prandtauer designed for the Lower Austrian Estates bridges for some tributaries of the Danube in the district of whether the Vienna Woods. Although they have not been executed, he came up with the prelates of Melk Abbey in closer contact and received from him the order, the parish church and the parsonage Lassee remodel. After further work on the foundations and monasteries in and around St. Pölten in 1702 he received the first major contract to build the Collegiate Church in Melk. The original conventional design has been changed several times by Abbot Berthold Dietmayr until he was ultimately executed.
While working on the Melk Abbey died in 1708 with Carlo Antonio Carlone the leading architect of the monastery in Upper Austria region. Prandtauer awarded the construction management in the pins Garsten, Krems Cathedral and St. Florian, the Carlone had begun. Doing so, changed and he modernized especially in Garsten and St. Florian the designs of his predecessor. From 1710 he also led the continuing transformation of Melk Abbey. To 1714 he was commissioned to the Dürnstein barockisieren, the same year he designed the new building of the pen Herzogsburg.
After his death in 1726, most projects were continued by his nephew Joseph Munggenast.
He also built the church on the mountain Sunday ( frescoes by Daniel Gran ), he was from 1708 ( as a successor to Carlo Antonio Carlone ) supervisor in Garsten and Christmas and participated in the planting of Dürnstein. In Pen Herzogsburg he built in 1714 the Este tract in the style of a country manor house (frescoes by Bartolomeo Altomonte ). The only documented secured palace Prandtauer is the 1722-1732 built Hohenbrunn Castle in Sankt Florian.
Realizations
Tributes
The likeness of Jacob Prandtauer can be seen on the 50 - shilling bank note from 1951, on the back is the Melk his most famous work depicted. His 300th birthday was celebrated, among others, with a special brand of Austrian Post.
Prandtauer is honored mainly in the centers of his life and work, numerous Upper and Lower Austrian municipalities named streets and squares after him. In addition, the milker elementary and secondary school and a gym in St. Pölten are named after him.
On the occasion of the 350th birthday devote themselves in 2010 in St. Pölten St. Pölten exhibitions of the City Museum, the Diocesan Museum and the Lower Austrian Provincial Museum the builder.
Jakob Prandtauer price
Since 1968, gives the city of St. Pölten Jacob Prandtauer Prize for Science and Art to persons or institutions from St. Pölten, or those who have rendered outstanding service to St. Pölten.