Johann Jacob Pock
Johann Jacob Pock (also Jakob, * 1604 in Konstanz on Lake Constance , then incorporated into the Habsburg Front Austria ; † February 12, 1651 in Vienna ) was a German master stonemason and sculptor as well as head of the Viennese building works . His brother was the painter Tobias Pock . The brothers Jacob and Tobias created a monumental total work of art with the high altar in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna.
Life
Constance was re - Catholicized in the course of the Counter Reformation . The city served the Habsburgs as a bulwark against further expansion of the Confederation to the north. To consolidate the Catholic consciousness, a Jesuit college was founded with a papal bull in 1604 against resistance in the city .
Berchtesgaden Collegiate Church
The first known works from his hand are two epitaphs in the collegiate church Berchtesgaden , for JB von Berfall in 1627 and Regina Haas in 1629.
The Roman-German king and later Emperor Ferdinand I had already ordered the Jesuits to fight against the Protestants in Vienna in 1551 . When Johann Jacob Pock in Vienna in the 1630s Dombauhütte was recorded, which was Lutheran doctrine marketed and Vienna again a largely Catholic city. A dense network of religious controls left no hiding places and evasive options for the evangelicals, but this network also subjected the Catholics to unprecedented surveillance.
Creative time in Vienna
From 1636 Pock was a tenant in the Wibmerviertel (in the Wipplingerstraße area), then the house owner in the Schottenviertel. The tax payment suggests a small house.
High altar of St. Stephen's Cathedral
He created this work of art on behalf of Prince Archbishop Philipp Friedrich von Breuner .
On June 6, 1643 he married Barbara Trostnerin, widow of Heinrich Trostner, citizen and stone cutter .
Imperial oratorio
His second major completed work in St. Stephen's Cathedral was the imperial oratorio begun in 1644 and completed in March 1646.
Marian column
When, towards the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1645, the Swedish troops stood at the gates of Vienna and threatened to besiege the city, Emperor Ferdinand III vowed . the erection of a large pillar in honor of Maria Immaculata in case the Swedes leave . This happened and the sculptor Johann Jacob Pock was commissioned to create the monument for the Am Hof square .
In 1667, Emperor Leopold I arranged for the memorial made of sandstone and granite to be transferred to Wernstein Castle in Upper Austria and replaced with a bronze copy (see Marian column in Vienna ).
Oberzechmeister of the Wiener Bauhütte
Every year the stonemasons and bricklayers were elected a carpentry master in December. The Unterzechmeister moved up to the office of Oberzechmeister. Pock was Unterzechmeister in 1647/1647, the masters elected him on November 24th, 1647 for 1648 as Oberzechmeister.
Construction expert at Klosterneuburg Abbey
On January 11, 1648, Abbot Rudolph of Klosterneuburg Monastery and the imperial court sculptor Pietro Maino Maderno signed a contract for the final completion of the work commissioned in 1642. That was the commenced second tower and vault in the cloister , interrupted "because of unexpected difficult wars and troubled times". Present were master stonemason Johann Jacob Pock, Oberzechmeister der Wiener Bauhütte , and architect Filiberto Lucchese , who countersigned the contract.
Design of the new tube well (trench well)
On June 18, 1648, the master stonemason from Kaisersteinbruch, Hieronymus Bregno , who was also a member of the Vienna stonemasonry brotherhood , received 100 fl down payment for a new fountain at Graben in Vienna. His journeyman was Francesco della Torre , who later became the Prague court stone mason. On June 14, 1651, after Bregno's death, the settlement took place. The remaining money was paid to Mr. Richter in the imperial quarry Pietro Maino Maderno as heir.
Master Johann Jacob had designed a Jupiter statue for this fountain , since he had died in the meantime, his widow Barbara received the remaining 509 fl.
His death and an epitaph in the Schottenstift
The master died on February 12, 1651. In the death record one entered: "Hannß Jacob Pockh sculptor and Steinmez in common townhouse in deep graben is different at the Windtwasserßucht , old 47 years."
In the midst of famous noble families , Hans Jacob Pock found his final resting place in the Schottenstift . The monument (173 × 83 cm) consists of a recessed oval, from this frame the bust of the master emerges prominently and purposefully. The bust itself is made of Untersberg marble and certainly comes from the workshop of the deceased master. Above his head is a leaping goat, feasting on the leaves of a plant. Below is the head of a horned buck with the stretched fur of a buck, another allusion to its name.
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My dear reader, stand still here, hear what I want to tell you. A brave man buried here, Hanns Jakob Bock that was his name A stonemason, sculptor according to art, His work brought him honor and favor Bey Sanct Stephan the high altar, Saul in the court his work was also the death of the artist Preyss Yes Nobody waiss to spare Tear him away from this world when one tents six hundred and fifty-one, He died on February 12th, his age Sibn and forty years. - His descendants Faithful in Eh und Rhum, Makes him diss Epitaphium Diss Bild gives you his Conterfey. The goat skin is the name of the fact that the gracious God be gracious to him, also give a merry birth. |
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The left widow continued the stonemason business until 1653. She was then followed into the hut, which was located in the Roßau , by the cathedral master builder at St. Stephan Adam Haresleben .
literature
- Stephansdom diocesan archive, contracts
- Vienna City and State Archives A 61/22, stone mason files . Upper Chamber Office Accounts 1648, No. 884/1651, No. 2293–2297.
- Pock, Johann Jacob . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933, p. 170 .
- Alois Kieslinger : The stones of St. Stephan. Vienna 1949.
- Otto E. Plettenbacher: History of the stonecutters of Vienna in the 17th century. An economic and cultural historical as well as sociological investigation. Dissertation, University of Vienna 1960.
- Robert Kramreiter : The Schottengruft in Vienna. 1962.
- Rupert Feuchtmüller : The Vienna St. Stephen's Cathedral. Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85351-092-2 .
- Franz Loidl , Martin Krexner, Vienna's bishops and archbishops. Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85268-080-8 .
- Josef Donner: The spring jumps up. Volume I. 1998.
- Helmuth Furch: Ditch well. In: Communications from the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association, No. 54, June 1999, p. 37–40. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
- Andreas Weigl (Ed.): Vienna in the Thirty Years War, population-society-culture-denomination. Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99088-9 .
- DEHIO WIEN 1. District-Inner City: St. Stephen's Cathedral, Grabenbrunnen, Marian Column. 2003, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , p. 148.
- Helmuth Furch : Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch. 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association, Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
- Herbert Haupt: The handicrafts freed from court and court in baroque Vienna 1620 to 1770. In: Research and contributions to the history of the city of Vienna. No. 46. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4342-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Kalina: The Marian Columns in Wernstein am Inn (1645/47), Vienna (1664/66), Munich (1637/38) and Prague (1650). In: Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Austrian Journal for Art and Monument Preservation 58, 2004, no. 1, pp. 43–55.
- ↑ Monuments and epitaphs outside the mausoleum . In: Association for the history of the city of Vienna (ed.): Reports and communications of the antiquity association in Vienna . tape 17 , 1st half. Gerold and Son, Vienna 1877, p. 40-43 , XXXVIII. and Figure 16 on p. 39 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Here “light Salzburg marble” is given as the material of the bust).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pock, Johann Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian master stonemason and baroque sculptor, head of the Wiener Bauhütte |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1604 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Constancy |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1651 |
| Place of death | Vienna |