Michael Beer (builder)

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Collegiate Church in Kempten

Michael Beer (* around 1605 in Au ( Vorarlberg ); † May 30, 1666 there ) was an Austrian architect and builder of the Baroque period .

Life

family

He came from the Beer family of architects and was the father of the builders Franz Beer von Bleichten (1660–1726) and Ignaz Beer (1664–1685).

Michael Beer is the progenitor of the Bär family, who later lived in Andelsbuch , from which, among others, Jodok Bär , Josef Alois Karl Bär , Friedrich Bär , Ernst Bär and Johannes Bär come.

He was married twice.

career

Michael Beer spent his journeyman time in Tyrol and Salzburg and finished it in 1625 with the master bricklayer Hans Garttner in Poysdorf in Lower Austria . Beer's first buildings in the Lake Constance area include the Kreuzlingen monastery church and the Bludesch parish church . In 1651 he received his first major contract with the construction of a new residence and collegiate church in Kempten (Allgäu) . Shortly after the end of the Thirty Years' War, this was the largest in southern Germany. In view of the extensive order from Kempten, which was finally completed by Johann Serro from the Grisons , the Au Guild , whose founder Beer is believed to have been around 1657 , is likely to have come into being. Michael Beer himself trained 18 apprentices there. The brothers Michael and Christian Thumb were among the first . The building trade school from the Bregenzerwald has significantly influenced the baroque church building in the German-speaking area.

For the reconstruction of the convent building of the Benedictine priory Hofen near Buchhorn (Friedrichshafen), which belonged to the Weingarten monastery , Beer applied with a 'sub-offer'. He did not want to leave the prestige object to the competitors, who at the time were the Misox master builders. With the construction, which he was then commissioned to do in 1654, he wanted to recommend himself for the looming new building of the Weingarten Abbey and to familiarize himself with the connected monasteries in the Lake Constance region. In the following time, the baroque master builder's area of ​​activity expanded to all of southern Germany and the Lake Constance area.

On the way home from laying the foundation stone of a building he had been given in Ebersberg in Upper Bavaria to his home village in the Bregenz Forest, Michael Beer drowned on May 30, 1666 in the Bregenz Ach .

Buildings (selection)

literature

  • Walther Genzmer:  Beer, Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 733 ( digitized version ).
  • The baroque master builders . In: Hermann Gsteu (Ed.): Our home Au in the Bregenzerwald . Au 1972, p. 180-185 .
  • Norbert Lieb, Franz Dieth: Michael Beer (approx. 1605–1666). In: The Vorarlberg Baroque Master Builders. , 2nd completely revised and expanded edition, Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1967, pp. 19–20.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Auer Guild . In: Hermann Gsteu (Ed.): Our home Au in the Bregenzerwald . Au 1972, p. 174-179 .
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and builder
DATE OF BIRTH around 1605
PLACE OF BIRTH Au (Vorarlberg)
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1666
Place of death Au (Vorarlberg)