Melchior Hefele
Melchior Hefele (Menyhért Hefele) (born January 11, 1716 in Nufels near Kaltenbrunn , Kaunertal, Tyrol; † April 15, 1794 in Steinamanger ) was an Austrian architect of the 18th century.
Life
Melchior Hefele learned the locksmith's trade with the court locksmith Georg Oegg in Würzburg . After his apprenticeship, he came to the Vienna Academy. In 1742 he received the first architecture award. The first significant work that he demonstrably designed himself was the marble high altar and the pulpit in the pilgrimage church on Sonntagberg in Lower Austria in 1755 and 1757.
With the sculptor Jakob Gabriel Mollinarolo he made the high altar for the old Neulerchenfeld parish church in Vienna and a high altar in Wiener Neustadt .
Hefele was also a teacher at Jacob Matthias Schmutzer's copper engraving academy. From 1774 he was the court architect of the Prince-Bishop in Passau . Georg Anreith , with whom Hefele worked at the Bishop's Palace in Preßburg around 1780 and whom he called back to Steinamanger in 1791, where Hefele worked for the Episcopal Church and the episcopal residence, is one of his students and later collaborators . After his death in 1794, Anreith continued building the church in Steinamanger.
More buildings
- Peregrini Chapel next to the Servitenkirche in Vienna
- Cathedral of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary and Bishop's Palace in Steinamanger, today's Szombathely, from 1791
- Primate's Palace in Bratislava , from 1778
- Plans for the new building of Esterhazy Palace , Fertöd (Hungary), before 1760
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Hefele, Melchior . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1862, p. 198 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Anna Zádor: Hefele, Melchior. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 200 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Irene Isser: Melchior Hefele. 1716–1794 , diploma thesis 1995
- Erika Dietinger: Melchior Hefele (Menyhért Hefele): 1716–1794; a great artist of the Kaunertal , 2005
Web links
- Entry for Melchior Hefele in the database of the state's memory for the history of the state of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
- Entry on Melchior Hefele in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Melchior Hefele. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
- Sonntagberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Save the Peregrini Chapel ( 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. Retrieved April 2, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hefele, Melchior |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1716 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nufels near Kaltenbrunn , Tyrol |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1794 |
| Place of death | Steinamanger |