Johannes Pery

John Pery (* 1670 in Kaisersteinbruch , Western Hungary , today Burgenland ; † 30th March 1705 ) was an Austrian master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque . It is also referred to as peri in some scriptures .

Life

Johannes Pery, son of the sculptor and master stonemason Antonius Pery , who lived in Kaisersteinbruch , who immigrated from Lugano in Switzerland, and Anna Catharina, née Retacco, widowed after Johann Lorentisch , became an apprentice to the judge and master stone mason Ambrosius Ferrethi in 1684 . The parents had already died and the father had died in the war . The father, and with it the whole family, were Viennese citizens in 1680 and since the mother had inherited they became house owners in the area of ​​today's Wipplingerstraße. In 1689 his teacher acquitted him as a journeyman , who at that time was working on the order of the Mariahilfer Church.

The young master married Catharina Herstorfferin in the Kaisersteinbruch church in 1697 , from an influential Viennese stonemason family. The grandfather Hans Herstorffer , master builder of St. Stephen's Cathedral and headmaster of the Viennese building works , had bought large amounts of money in the imperial quarry and thus caused considerable turmoil in the stonemasonry . That was all history, Catharina came to the quarry, her children were born here.

His sister Catharina married the Eggenburg master stonemason Reichardt Fux in 1690 , who was appointed judge in 1696 after Ferrethi's death. After his death in 1699, Pery inherited a floor building with a house . The second sister Maria Dyonisia married the journeyman stonemason Franz Grämäschi in 1694, his parents lived in Sommerein . In 1703 he took on Jacob Fux, his sister's son, as an apprentice.

On March 29, 1705 Johannes died at the age of 35, it was a great death at that time, of the children survived, still in his lifetime, only son Martin. Widow Catharina, 29 years old, married the manorial hunter Johann Georg Flaschütz here. With such a young master, it is difficult to find him by name on assignments, as he was mostly a co-master. In the case of the official appraisal and treatise , high receivables were to be claimed in Vienna, and broken and worked stones for Johann Paul Schilck in his quarry were still to be paid by him.

It should be noted here that the works of the Kaisersteinbruch Brotherhood of Stonemasons listed here can only be a fraction of the work actually carried out.

Son Martin

Son Martin (* 1700) also learned the stonemasonry, became a journeyman, married Catharina, son Joseph, on April 28, 1729, his days on earth ended at the age of 29. After that, no further data.

Tomb slab of Catharina and family. MRS CATHARINA IS RESTING HERE WITH HER BEEDEN MARRIAGES MEN AND LOVE SON / SHE DIED DECEMBER 1, 1712 AGE 36 / JOHANNES PERRI HER FIRST MAN STEINMÖTZ MEISTER DIED 30 MARZI 1705 AGE 35 / GEORG FLASH DIED 2TH AGE APRIL 7th, 1729, aged 58 / MARTIN PERRI, a son escaped the world on April, 28th, 1729, aged 29. GOD GIVE YOU ETERNAL CALM. AMEN.

Archival material

• Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv : Steinmetzakten, brotherhood book .
• Heiligenkreuz Archive: Church books, registers, Steinmetz, estate John Pery

literature

• Helmuth Furch , 400 years of the Kaisersteinbruch, Festschrift , S 21, Aufdingung, Marriage, 1990. ISBN 978-3-9504555-1-9 .
• ders .: Announcements of the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association, ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
• ders .: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch , 2 volumes, Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
• ders .: The brotherhood of the Kaisersteinbrucher stonemasons, a list 1650-1730 , 2007. ISBN 978-3-9504555-4-0 .