Leopold Wißgrill

Leopold Wißgrill (* probably 1701 in Markl near Windigsteig , Lower Austria ; † around 1770) was a master mason and builder of the Baroque era .

Live and act

Leopold Wißgrill comes from a family of master masons working in St. Pölten . He was a student of the famous baroque master builder Jakob Prandtauer . In Altenburg , he worked to 1737 as polishing under Joseph Munggenast . The Wißgrill, still referred to as a master mason, later worked as a builder. However, he could never step out of the shadows of Prandtauer or Munggenast, whose work he partially completed or carried out in their style. His oeuvre includes numerous sacred buildings in the Waldviertel . Among other things, he worked with Paul Troger at the Maria Dreieichen pilgrimage church . Wißgrill lived in Horn , where an alley is named after him.

Works

Maria Dreieichen Basilica

• New construction of the parish church of Pisching 1735–1738
• Redesign of the parish church of St. Pankraz in Reinprechtspölla with Donato Felice d'Allio around 1735
• Plan and execution of the parish church in Straning 1737–1752
• Extension of the church choir at St. George's Church in Horn in 1738
• Plan and execution of the parish and pilgrimage church Maria Dreieichen 1744–1750
• Redesign of the rectory in Reinprechtspölla in 1756
• Parish church Röschitz 1768–1783

literature

• Eva Berger: Historical Gardens of Austria , Vol. 1, Vienna 2002
• Walter Winkler: The baroque master builder Leopold Wißgrill, an employee of Joseph Munggenast (1701-1770) In: Das Waldviertel Vol. 41, 1992, pp. 356-365
• Walter Winkler: New sources on the life and work of Leopold Wißgrill ( 1701-1770 ) In: Das Waldviertel vol. 43, 1994 pp. 267-277

Web links

• Entry on Leopold Wißgrill in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )