Antonius Pery

Pery altar, Kaiserstein , restored by Schilck in 1717 , 1996 altar sheet “Crucifixion” by Nadia Ioan

Antonius Pery (* 1644 in Lugano , † 1683 in flight from the Turks) was a Swiss master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque . Pery is also called Peri in the scriptures .

Life

Apprenticeship as sculptor and stonemason in Wiener Neustadt

The first news of Anthony's Aufdingung on 16 August 1658 by the sculptor David Weiss from Wiener Neustadt . With its own cathedral construction hut , Wiener Neustadt was the main store of the stonecutter and bricklaying trade for southern Lower Austria as far as Hungary, Eisenstadt, Ödenburg, Purbach and the Imperial Quarry on Leithaberg . The main guarantors of Antonius were the master stonemason and judge of the Kaisersteinbruch Ambrosius Regondi and master Giovanni Battista Bagutti, his father Donatus Pery and his teacher the upper burghers.

Imperial armory

At the time, Weiss was working at the Upper Imperial Armory in Vienna's Renngasse . Entry in the Hofzahlamtsbüchern ... David Weiss, citizens to Neustatt asked to pay the ihme, vermög one with Peter Concorz sel., Gewesten Hofbauschreiber erected Contracts , verfertigte work in the upper imperial armory in Vienna . Here Pery did his first exercises.

Imperial quarry

In the 1660s, Emperor Leopold I had a new building built in the Vienna Hofburg , the Leopoldnischer Trakt. The empress widow after his father Ferdinand III. , the Italian Eleonore von Gonzaga , financed a completely new architecture for Vienna, the facade of the church at the court , the Jesuits rebuilt their profession house at the court etc. and Kaisersteinbruch masters were involved in everything.

The Italian master stonemason Johann Lorentisch married Anna Catharina Retacco, daughter of the imperial master builder Simone Retacco , on January 9, 1661 in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. Pery worked as a journeyman at Lorentisch. The facade and the arbor of the church to the nine choirs of angels meant an interesting, novel task. Lorentisch died on April 7, 1666. His 25-year-old widow Anna Catharina chose Antonius Pery for her husband. In 1668, as a master craftsman, he was entered in the land register with half a quarry and a house.

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  Vienna, church at the court

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  Arbor

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  Kaisersteinbrucher cemetery portal, Rochus on the right

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  Barbara statue, once Pery altar, now high altar

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  Catharina statue, once Pery altar, now high altar

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  1683, burning villages around Vienna

Homeowner in Vienna

The "Retaccin" inherited a house in Vienna on Wittwercherstrasse, now Wipplingerstrasse, at the corner of Jordangasse. On October 3, 1680, Pery received the citizenship deed in Vienna and was a house owner. Anna Catharina died on October 14, 1681 at the age of 40. Its epitaph is next to the sacristy door of the Kaisersteinbruch Church . The inscription reads:

ALHIE LIGT BURIED WIFE ANNA CATHATINA PERIN, BORN REDACCIN, DIED ON OCTOBER 14, 1681 AT THE AGE OF 40. GOD GIVE YOU ETERNAL PEACE AND A FRELICH RESURRECTION AND A BLESSED ENTITY TO ALL OF US. AMEN.

Antonius then married Anna Kleinschrothin, the sister of the prefect of the boys' school in Heiligenkreuz Abbey , Balthasar Kleinschroth .

Escape from the Turks

When the Turkish war broke out in full in July 1683, the prefect and the singing students fled Heiligenkreuz. With them was brother-in-law Antonius Pery and the blacksmith of the village Tobias Hackenberger. The plundering Tartar troops poured out over Kaisersteinbruch, Königshof , northern Burgenland and the adjacent quarter under the Vienna Woods, almost no settlement was spared. The blacksmith came back, Pery's whereabouts are not known.

His son Johannes Pery , born in 1670, also a master stonemason, married the Viennese master daughter Catharina Herstorfferin in 1697 .

Maybe he was related to the sculptor and plasterer Franciscus Antonius Pery , who designed baroque ornaments in various churches in Brussels .

Works

• 1663: Church at the court in Vienna, facade, sculptural design.
• 1667–1668: Kaisersteinbruch , cemetery portal, Rochus statue.
• 1669–1670: Kaisersteinbruch Church , donor of the right side altar , rich sculptural decoration. The altar, which was destroyed in 1683, was restored by his son-in-law Paul Schilck in 1717.

Archival material

• Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv : Steinmetzakten, brotherhood book.
• Heiligenkreuz Abbey Archive: Church books, registers, stonemasons.
• City archive Wiener Neustadt : stonemason files, assignment.

literature

• Otto E. Plettenbacher: History of the stonecutters of Vienna in the 17th century. An economic and cultural historical as well as sociological investigation. Price list from 1688, set order of the stone carvings. Dissertation. University of Vienna 1960.
• P. Hermann Watzl (Ed.): Flight and Refuge, diary of Priest Balthasar Kleinschroth from the Turkish year 1683. Heiligenkreuz 1956.
• Pery Antonius. In: Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien. 4th volume. 1995
• Helmuth Furch : 400 years of the Kaisersteinbruch. 1990 ISBN 978-3-9504555-1-9 .
• The Pery and Flaschütz family. In: Helmuth Furch, communications from the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association. No. 5, 1991, pp. 11-16. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
• Ana Maria Altmann: The Pery / Schilck Altar. In: Festschrift for the praiseworthy house of God Rochus and Sebastian in the Kaiserl. Quarry on the Leithaberg . No. 40 of the communications, 1995, pp. 42-48.
• Max Pfister, B. Other: Repertory of the Ticino Artists. Switzerland's most forgotten cultural contribution to Europe. 2 volumes. 1994.
• Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
• Helmuth Furch: The brotherhood of the Kaisersteinbrucher stonemasons, a list 1650-1730. 2007. ISBN 978-3-9504555-4-0 .