Andreas Stengg

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Andreas Stengg (born November 28, 1660 in Sankt Lambrecht , † December 30, 1741 in Graz ) was an Austrian master builder at the transition from high baroque to rococo .

Life

Andreas Stengg was the fourth child of Ruep and Ursula Stenkh, a farmer couple. He was baptized on the day he was born. Later he apprenticed with Barthlme Ebner, who later became master mason in Graz. He completed this two years later and then went on a hike.

Subsequently, Stengg applied as master mason in Graz. Andreas Stengg had lived in the Graz suburb since 1689, and on February 7 of the same year he married the widow Maria Mayr. Both were the parents of Johann Georg Stengg , who was baptized in St. Peter . From 1696 he was a master of his trade and was therefore allowed to train apprentices. He also worked with Joachim Carlone . In 1705 the now widowed Stengg married a certain Maria Regina Stabenhofer, the daughter of the master mason Georg Stabenhofers. He then moved from the suburb in Münzgraben to Sackstrasse , i.e. within the city walls. He took over the workshop and the journeymen of his father-in-law and bought the family home of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach in the Frauengasse 5 in 1708 .

At the beginning of the 18th century, he designed the outer facade of the baroque Meerscheinschlössel in the Graz suburb of Geidorf on behalf of Leopold von Stubenberg . Together with his son, Stengg was commissioned from 1714 to plan and manage the construction of the Mariatrost pilgrimage church near Graz. The shell was ten years later, but the church itself was not completed until 1779, almost four decades after Stengg's death.

He was appointed court mason in 1724 on the recommendation of Count Wurmbrandt. Andreas Stengg was already 64 years old at the time. He held this position until his resignation on January 15, 1741. After his retirement, his son Johann Georg succeeded him in office. His younger son, Johann Joseph, born in 1722, probably took over the workshop. Stengg died in 1741 at the age of 81. He was buried in the St. Anna cemetery on the day of his death.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Sandra Maria Rust: The Styrian Baroque architect Johann Georg Stengg (1689–1753), Univ. Diss., University of Vienna 2009.
  • Horst Schweigert : The Styrian Baroque master builder Andreas Stengg (1660 to 1741) , in: Heinrich Gerhard Franz , Günter Brucher : Orient and Occident in the mirror of art: Festschrift Heinrich Gerhard Franz for his 70th birthday , Academic Printing and Publishing Company (ADEVA), Graz 1986

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rust, Sandra Maria: The Styrian baroque architect Johann Georg Stengg (1689–1753), p. 12.
  2. ^ Rust, Sandra Maria: The Styrian Baroque architect Johann Georg Stengg (1689–1753), pp. 13–15.
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the Mariatroster Kirchenwirt
  4. ^ Rust, Sandra Maria: The Styrian baroque architect Johann Georg Stengg (1689–1753), p. 15f.

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personal data
SURNAME Stengg, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian builder at the transition from high baroque to rococo
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1660
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Lambrecht
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1741
Place of death Graz