Antonius Pozzo

Kaiser Ebersdorf, hand drawing by Wolfgang Wilhelm Prämer

New building, hand drawing by Prämer

Antonius Pozzo (* in Milan ) was a stonemason and master craftsman .

family

He was certainly a son of Jacopo Pozzo, who was the chief master in the Dornbach quarry in 1562 . As can be seen in a petition from May 1562, Jacopo had been in the service of the court buildings and the quarry for 15 years. Over this he had become a khrumbling and sick.

He was probably related to Franciscus and Bernhard Pozzo. These were brothers Franciscus Pozzo was under I. Ferdinand imperial architect . Pozzo, also his co-master Bartholomäus Pethan from Dornbach , is mentioned in the archives .

Buildings for the emperor

The imperial quarry on Leythaberg

From the sources it can be seen that Bartholomäus Pethan and Antonius Pozzo, as well as Alexius and Elias Payos and Augustin Rigobello with their journeymen and assistants appeared as a working group , worked in "friendship" - on shared profit for the emperor, like the Francesco della Torre and Giovanni Battista Passerini sen. and Giovanni Battista Pozzo for the Cathedral of Passau and the Prague court , as well as their sons Giovanni Pietro della Torre and Giovanni Battista Passerini jun. The young master stonemason Ambrosius Ferrethi , together with Camillo Rezi, worked in the Hofburg for the emperor , after which he and his sons-in-law Giovanni Battista Passerini and Martin Trumler were able to carry out major orders from the princes of Liechtenstein . The imperial quarry on Leythaberg with the hard Kaiserstein was the focus of her working life, or to carry out a stonemason job (as in the case of Castle Neugebauten ).

Hofburg, Ebersdorf Castle

In 1564/65 Pethan and Pozzo worked on windows and doors for Ebersdorf Castle , furthermore on 27 arches of 70 fl each for the Colonel corridor , which led from the Stallburg into the Hoflustgarten.

New building

On June 13, 1576, the imperial construction clerk ordered: To judges and parishes in Sommerein , Sarasdorf and Wilfleinsdorf - “Honorable. We give you to hear that in the quarry on the Leithaberg several large stone works have been carved, which one to the Rom. Quays. Your Majesty , our most gracious lord, should bring up the new pheasant garden building ... “The stonemasons Bartholomäus Pethan and Antonius Pozzo u. a. on the pillars for the western gallery, and these should be transported from the quarry of the Leithagebirge.

In the years after Emperor Maximilian's death, construction work continued slowly. In 1579 the pillars of the eastern gallery also stood, which emerges from a petition addressed to Emperor Rudolph by the stonemasons Bartholomäus Pethan and Antonius Pozzo in early 1580. They complained that they would not receive the 200 fl promised by the court paymaster for the hard work on the eastern gallery.

Reckoning 1581

One point from this: 50 fl / 4kr, which the foreman and stonemason Antonio Pozzo had withheld from the wages for the deceased stonemason Domenico Moneto. Years before , Moneto had been granted 100 fl. To the stainwerck, if he should have made the Neuenstockh against Eberstorff, but until July 1580 he had only worked for 49 fl / 4 kr. In this building invoice, too, income and expenditure do not match.

From the new building to the Gloriette in Schönbrunn Palace Gardens

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Helmuth Furch : Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch, Pozzo Antonius . Vol. 2, pp. 326, 591, 606 , 894. Kaisersteinbruch 2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
↑ Hilda Lietzmann : The new building in Vienna, Sultan Süleyman's tent - Maximilian II. Pleasure palace. Deutscher Kunstverlag 1987. ISBN 3-422-06008-1
↑ The representative gate to the Schweizerhof was once built by order of King Ferdinand I (1503-1564) as the main entrance to his residence from 1552-53. Originally, the portal architecture was left in the stone's own color, “a cool blue-gray”, announced the Austrian Academy of Sciences in a broadcast. According to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, it was particularly astonishing that the portal architecture was left in the stone's own color at the time of construction: the “cool blue-gray” of the sandstone from the now-defunct Dornbach quarry on the western outskirts of Vienna.
↑ Hofkammerarchiv, Niederösterreichische Herrschaftsakten W 61 / A 2, fol. 152-153.
^ Enrico Morpurgo : Gli artisti italiani in Austria . Vol. 1, Roma 1937, p. 137.
^ Renate Wagner-Rieger : The Renaissance architecture in Austria, Bohemia and Hungary in their relationship to Italy up to the middle of the 16th century . In: Arte artisti the Laghi Lombardi. 1, Como 1959. p. 476, note 49.
↑ Max Pfister : Repertory of the Ticino Artists Volume 2. Switzerland's most forgotten cultural contribution to Europe , POZZI / POZZO Francesco , 1994, Thalwil .
^ Harry Kühnel , Research on the History of the Vienna Hofburg in the 16th Century. (Master stonemason Benedict Kölbl, Franciscus Pozzo, Antonius Pozzo, Bartholomäus Pethan) Communications from the Commission for Castle Research No. 6 , Vienna 1957.
↑ Hilda Lietzmann : The new building in Vienna. P. 80.
↑ Helmuth Furch, Passau Cathedral, trial files. In: Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch No. 47, August 1997, p. 36 ff. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
↑ Hofkammerarchiv, Niederösterreichische Herrschaftsakten W 61 / A 2, fol. 414-419. and Vice Cathedral Main Accounts No. 595, 1566, fol. 282.
↑ Harry Kühnel , The Hofburg . The Rom. Kays. Majesty, our most gracious Lord Burg, city map 1547 . In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter Volume 5, p. 39, Paul Zsolnay Verlag , 1971.
↑ Hofkammerarchiv, Niederösterreichische Herrschaftsakten N 14, fol. 492-493 (regest 11604).
↑ Hilda Lietzmann: The new building in Vienna. Apart from the fact that he worked on the new building, nothing is known about Moneto, p. 79. See Enrico Morpurgo (cited note 143), p. 98.

personal data
SURNAME	Pozzo, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian master stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH	16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milan
DATE OF DEATH	16th century or 17th century

[1] Helmuth Furch : Historisches Lexikon Kaisersteinbruch, Pozzo Antonius . Vol. 2, pp. 326, 591, 606 , 894. Kaisersteinbruch 2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .

[2] Hilda Lietzmann : The new building in Vienna, Sultan Süleyman's tent - Maximilian II. Pleasure palace. Deutscher Kunstverlag 1987. ISBN 3-422-06008-1

[3] The representative gate to the Schweizerhof was once built by order of King Ferdinand I (1503-1564) as the main entrance to his residence from 1552-53. Originally, the portal architecture was left in the stone's own color, “a cool blue-gray”, announced the Austrian Academy of Sciences in a broadcast. According to the Austrian Academy of Sciences, it was particularly astonishing that the portal architecture was left in the stone's own color at the time of construction: the “cool blue-gray” of the sandstone from the now-defunct Dornbach quarry on the western outskirts of Vienna.

[4] Hofkammerarchiv, Niederösterreichische Herrschaftsakten W 61 / A 2, fol. 152-153.

[5] Enrico Morpurgo : Gli artisti italiani in Austria . Vol. 1, Roma 1937, p. 137.

[6] Renate Wagner-Rieger : The Renaissance architecture in Austria, Bohemia and Hungary in their relationship to Italy up to the middle of the 16th century . In: Arte artisti the Laghi Lombardi. 1, Como 1959. p. 476, note 49.

[7] Max Pfister : Repertory of the Ticino Artists Volume 2. Switzerland's most forgotten cultural contribution to Europe , POZZI / POZZO Francesco , 1994, Thalwil .

[8] Harry Kühnel , Research on the History of the Vienna Hofburg in the 16th Century. (Master stonemason Benedict Kölbl, Franciscus Pozzo, Antonius Pozzo, Bartholomäus Pethan) Communications from the Commission for Castle Research No. 6 , Vienna 1957.

[9] Hilda Lietzmann : The new building in Vienna. P. 80.

[10] Helmuth Furch, Passau Cathedral, trial files. In: Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch No. 47, August 1997, p. 36 ff. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .

[11] Hofkammerarchiv, Niederösterreichische Herrschaftsakten W 61 / A 2, fol. 414-419. and Vice Cathedral Main Accounts No. 595, 1566, fol. 282.

[12] Harry Kühnel , The Hofburg . The Rom. Kays. Majesty, our most gracious Lord Burg, city map 1547 . In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter Volume 5, p. 39, Paul Zsolnay Verlag , 1971.

[13] Hofkammerarchiv, Niederösterreichische Herrschaftsakten N 14, fol. 492-493 (regest 11604).

[14] Hilda Lietzmann: The new building in Vienna. Apart from the fact that he worked on the new building, nothing is known about Moneto, p. 79. See Enrico Morpurgo (cited note 143), p. 98.