Benedict Prill

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Benedict Prill (born March 21, 1721 in Vienna , † May 9, 1759 in Klosterneuburg ) was a priest in the Augustinian canons of Klosterneuburg , researched and recorded the art treasures of the monastery.

Life

Benedict Prill was born in Vienna, entered the Augustinian Canon Monastery of Klosterneuburg on September 11, 1742, made his profession on September 15, 1743 and was ordained a priest on October 2, 1747.

In addition to his work as a pastor, Prill dealt with the historical artistic legacy of the monastery in the time of great change and the baroque redesign. Much of his graphic work still provides the basis for research today.

He is buried in the southern wing of the cloister under the relief of Christ on the Mount of Olives . A small epitaph with the inscription BPCRCP 1759 commemorates him.

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His drawings from 1746 of the Capella Speciosa , which was demolished in 1799 , are still the most important basis of modern reconstruction.

But he also recorded small art treasures such as the treasure trove of Roman silver coins near the former mail tower, which could be assigned to the ancient Klosterneuburg fort .

Particularly distinguished he has the time by the complete capture still in situ existing glass paintings of the cloister in 1749 in the manuscript : he added "fenestrae XVI mirae antiquitatis gothicae superstites in ambitu canoniae Claustro-Neoburgensis" with watercolor drawings.

His notes are still the basis for research into the famous glass paintings that were created around 1330 under Stephan von Sierndorf ( provost from 1317 to 1335 in Klosterneuburg) on ​​the basis of the Verdun Altarpiece .

  • Drawings by Benedict Prill

  • Planned expansion of Klosterneuburg Abbey with Saint Leopold

  • Capella Speciosa - exterior view

  • Capella Speciosa - interior view

  • Klosterneuburg coin treasure

  • Window VI in the cloister of Klosterneuburg Abbey

Web links

Commons : Benedict Prill  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Camesina , The oldest glass paintings of the canons monastery Klosterneuburg and portraits of the Babenbergs in the Cistercian Abbey Heiligenkreuz, published by the Kaiserl. Royal Central Commission for the Research and Conservation of Architectural Camels, Volume II, Vienna 1857
  2. ^ Hartmann Joseph Zeibig , Fontes rerum Austriacarum. 2. Dept. Diplomataria et acta. Volume 10, 1857, Klosterneuburg Abbey in its inner and outer life up to the end of the XIX century
  3. ^ Eva Frodl-Kraft , The medieval glass paintings in Lower Austria. Part 1: Albrechtsberg to Klosterneuburg. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Graz 1972 (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Austria. Vol. 2.1), illustrated from page 168 - panels X to XII
  4. ↑ Benedict Prill, Fenestrae XVI mirae antiquitatis gothicae superstites in ambitu canoniae Claustro-Neoburgensis, 1749; with additions by W. Leyrer, 1774 - manuscript in the monastery library (inventory of the cloister windows in situ with watercolors and historical comments on the transcribed inscriptions and a list of those panes that were transferred to the archive and the house chapel of the prelature in 1774; abbreviated: Prill, 1749).
  5. ^ Eva Frodl-Kraft , Gothic stained glass from the cloister in Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburger Buch- und Kunstverlag, Klosterneuburg 1963
personal data
SURNAME Prill, Benedict
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prill, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augustinian canon
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1759
Place of death Klosterneuburg