Johann Fuchs (master builder)

Johann Fuchs (also: Janez Nepomuk Fuchs , * 1727 in Neiss (= Neisse ?), Silesia ; † May 9, 1804 in Marburg an der Drau ) was a Lower Styrian church builder, alongside Josef Hueber the main representative of the "Styrian Baroque" in the 3rd quarter of the 18th century .

biography

Fuchs came to Marburg in the early 1750s as an employee of the architect Josef Hoffer . After Hoffer's death, he married his widow Barbara, took over the well-known workshop and soon became rich.

It is known for its oval floor plans (Marburg an der Drau, Pregrada ). Its architecture belongs essentially to the late baroque, in its late period classical influences can be clearly discerned.

Buildings (also attributed)

• Parish church of St. Aegydius in Hollenegg (Styria) (1750)
• Tower of the church in Gleinstätten (1751)
• Parish church in Ehrenhausen (1751–1754)
• Church in Sankt Johann im Saggautal (1750–1758)
• Pilgrimage church of the Assumption on Frauenberg near Leibnitz (1760), vaulting of the church interior and design of the apse
• Sacristy St. Josef in Marburg (1764)
• Church in Kostrivnica (1766–1768.)
• Pilgrimage church of the Assumption of Mary on Frauenberg near Leibnitz (1766), baroque style
• Jesuit Church St. Alois and main square in Marburg an der Drau (1767–1769 / 70)
• Church of the Assumption of Mary Vurberk , Spodnji Duplek near Pettau (1773)
• The baroque church in Selnica ob der Drava (1773)
• Church of St. Nicholas in Vurberk (design 1772, construction 1773–1776)
• Wieskirche and rectory in Wies (1774–1782, rectory probably not until 1798, when the Wieskirche was elevated to a parish church)
• Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit in Gurkfeld (1770–1777)
• Church of St. Patricius in Hollenegg (Styria) (1777)
• St. Jakobus Church in Nestelbach near Graz (1779)
• Pfarrhof St. Georg in Cilli (1780)
• Church of St. Laurence: in Rann an der Save (Brežice, Slovenia) (1781–1782)
• Church of St. Martina the Courtiers (1782).
• St. Mary's Church and the Maria Schnee vicarage in Unterwelk (Zgornja Velka) near Šentilj (1789–1791)
• Maierhof - Racerhof in Maribor (1798)
• Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pregrada (design 1790, carried out 1803 to 1818)

with an uncertain date

• Reconstruction of the castle in Zajezda (in the 1770s or 1780s), one of its few secular buildings, probably initiated by Archbishop Adam Patachich de Zajezda.
• Župna crkva Sv. Ladislava u Pokupskom --- tekst u katalogu izložbe "Pokupsko 1991" ---

literature

• Đurđica Cvitanović, Johann Fuchs projektant župne crkve u Pregradi [Johann Fuchs, the designer of the parish church in Pregrada] . In: Peristil. Zbornik radova za povijest umjetnosti . ISSN  0553-6707 . Volume 38, Zagreb 1995, pp. 121-128. (also as a separate print, Zagreb 1997)
• Metoda Kemperl, Jožef Hoffer - architect brez meja [Josef Hoffer, an architect without borders] . In: Podravina . ISSN  1333-5286 . Volume 7, 2005
• Metoda Kemperl, Corpus poznobaročne sakralne arhitekture na slovenskem Štajerskem [Corpus of late baroque architecture in Slovene Styria] , Ljubljana 2007. (Zbirka Historia Artis - elektronske izdaje), ISBN 978-961-237-207-1 (PDF full text without search option) MB)
• Hans Reuther :  Fuchs, Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 679 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hollenegg online: Parish Church of St. Egydius ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Marktgemeinde Ehrenhausen: Historisches Ehrenhausen ( Memento of April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Parish St. Johann im Saggautal: The master builder Johann Fuchs ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (also contains information on other church buildings by Fuchs) 
4. ^ Community Seggauberg: pilgrimage church on Frauenberg near Leibnitz
5. ↑ Slovenian Touristic Board: St. Joseph (Maribor)
6. ^ Community Seggauberg: The story of Seggauberg
7. ^ Slovenian Wikipedia: Cerkev svetega Alojzija, Maribor
8. ^ Slovenian Touristic Board: Maribor and Pohorje with surroundings - Aloysius church
9. ↑ Dr. Sergej Vrišer, Cerkev device Marije Vnebovzetze na Vurberku ( Memento of the original of May 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ mturist: Vurberk  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Franz Kraus: On the history of the market town of Wies ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (WIESuell, special edition), p. 6 
12. ↑ Valvasorjeva knjižnica Kršto: Tlakovec iz stare špitalske cerkve v Krškem  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Slovenian)  
13. ↑ Hollenegg online: Filialkirche St. Patrizius ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Ministrstvo za culture: Brežice - Cerkev sv. Lovrenca
15. ↑ Ministrstvo za kulturo: Zgornja Velka - Cerkev Marije Snežne