Hieronymus Bregno
Jerome Bregno (* in Osteno on Lake Lugano ; † 14. June 1651 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary , now Burgenland ) was a Swiss master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque . He was a brother of Antonius Bregno .
Life
After the death of master stonemason Bernhard Tencalla in 1627, his property, a house and quarry, was divided. One part went to the widow Maria, who married Master Mathias Lorentisch , the other part was bought by Hieronymus Bregno and his wife Margaretha.
The Viennese master stonemasons complained to Abbot Michael Schnabel on March 2, 1641 that the subject of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Master Hieronymus Bregno, was illegally working as a troublemaker in Vienna , and that Dominicans had been hiding with them for a long time . Then he would have set up an evenly- sized stonemason's hut right across the street on the Jesuit grounds. The Italians, builders Giacomo Spazzio, Cypriano Biasino and Antonio Canevale worked at the Dominican Church at that time .
Kaisersteinbrucher and Viennese masters
Hieronymus Bregno then became a master of the Viennese construction works and thus a citizen of Vienna, at the same time as a quarry tenant and house owner in the imperial quarry , i.e. a subject of the Heiligenkreuz Abbey . In September 1641, he took the boy Francesco della Torre from Ramponio in Val d'Intelvi (I) in Vienna as an apprentice , and said it in June 1646 to journeyman free . He had a great career ahead of him as a royal Prague stone mason. Francesco Bussi, born in Milan , became his apprentice in November 1643 . Its main guarantor was Hans Herstorffer , master builder of St. Stephan .
Subsequent masters were also members of the Wiener Bauhütte and the Kaisersteinbrucher Brotherhood. In the register of November 1644, the fees for Viennese master stonemasons, as well as journeymen for the collection of the new imperial freedoms are specified, a master 45 kreuzer , a journeyman 15 kreuzer. It follows:
- Pietro Maino Maderno hunted down for himself and 4 journeymen ... 1 guilder 45 kreuzers
- Hieronymus Bregno hunts for himself and 1 journeyman (Francesco della Torre) ... 1 guilder
- Ambrosius Petruzzy kills September 5th for himself and 2 journeymen ... 1 guilder 15 kreuzers
- Antonius Purisol slain July 31st for himself and 2 journeymen ... 1 gulden 15 kreuzers
Salva Guardia privilege for Kaisersteinbruch
Trench well
The lion fountain in front of the “Zum golden Hirschen” house on the Graben in Vienna was renewed in 1648 at the request of the Lower Austrian government. Order for Master Hieronymus Bregno on June 18, 1648 with a payment on account of 100 guilders. The final billing came after his death. Judge in Kaisersteinbruch Pietro Maino Maderno , as prescribed executor and heir received the balance due on June 14, 1651st It can be assumed that Kaiserstein was processed at that time . The sculptor Johann Jacob Pock designed a Jupiter statue for this fountain , since he had also died in the meantime, his widow Barbara received the remaining amount.
Confirmation of the craft regulations
The Roman-German Emperor Ferdinand III. confirmed on December 13, 1650 the stonemason colliery Wiener Neustadt and the incorporated stonemasons and masons of Baden, the imperial quarry. In this letter, the craft regulations of Emperor Matthias 1615 and Ferdinand II. 1625 are renewed.
death
Hieronymus Bregno died before June 14, 1651, after the death of both the property passed to the daughter Agatha Bregnin, who married the stonemason Ambrosius Ferrethi .
Works
- until 1640: Dominican Church in Vienna
- from 1640: Jesuit Church in Vienna
- 1648: Wiener Grabenbrunnen
Archival material
- Vienna City and State Archives : Upper Chamber Office Accounts, Grabenbrunnen; Stonemason's files, assignment book .
- City archive Wiener Neustadt : stone cutting files, correspondence between Kaisersteinbruch - Vienna - Wiener Neustadt, independent quarter drawer .
- Heiligenkreuz Abbey archive: register, stonemason invoices .
literature
- Helmuth Furch : In: Communications of the Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
- Master stonemasons who worked in Vienna and in the Leithaberg quarry, Hieronymus Bregno . No. 24, 199 * 3, pp. 15-20.
- Italians in the quarry on Leithaberg . No. 12, 1991, p. 6 f.
- The masters of an honorable craft of the stonemasons and bricklayers in the kayserl. Quarry at Leythaberg, 1st part . No. 28, 1993, pp. 18-25.
- The Masters, Part 2 . No. 30, 1994, pp. 21-29.
- Trench well, stonemasonry Hieronymus Bregno . No. 54, 1999, pp. 37-40.
- IV. International Symposium on the History of Handicrafts Veszprém, 9-11.1994 . Helmuth Furch: The quarter drawer of the stonemasonry and bricklaying trade in the imperial quarry in relation to the Vienna main drawer - 17th / 18th century. Century. Ed. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences , Budapest / Veszprém 1995, pp. 99-102.
- Helmuth Furch, Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch, 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Abbey Heiligenkreuz Archive: Letter from the Viennese masters to Abbey Heiligenkreuz
- ^ Vienna City and State Archives: Steinmetzakten, Aufdingbuch
- ^ Vienna City and State Archives: Upper Chamber Office Accounts, Grabenbrunnen
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bregno, Hieronymus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss master stonemason of the baroque era |
DATE OF BIRTH | 16th century or 17th century |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Osteno on Lake Lugano |
DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1651 |
Place of death | Kaisersteinbruch |