Joseph Proy

Ancestral hall or large hall on the Trostburg with stucco work by Master Josef

Joseph Proy (the first name also appears in the spelling Josef , the last name as Prey ) was a painter, sculptor and plasterer active in the early 17th century .

Proy, who comes from Wangen im Allgäu , received residents of the city of Bruneck in the Puster Valley in 1602 on the occasion of his wedding to the town's daughter Barbara Götschler . In 1604 he worked in the parish church , in 1605 and 1606 in the hospital. There is no documentary evidence of his activity in the Bruneck archives for the years 1607–1609. Since there is evidence that a master Josef was employed with Pustertal family ties at the Trostburg in the Eisack valley in 1608 and 1609 , his identity with Joseph Proy is likely. On the Trostburg, master Josef realized stucco work in the ancestral hall and great hall, which are considered major works of the local late renaissance . Joseph Proy was mentioned for the last time in Bruneck in 1610, and in the same year he was accepted as a resident of the city of Bozen . After 1613 it is no longer documented.

literature

• Adelheid Zallinger: Trostburg . In: Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch. IV. Volume: Eisacktal . Verlagsanstalt Athesia, Bozen 1977, pp. 258-324, in particular pp. 266 and 320