Michel Froeschl

Michel Fröschl (* before 1500 in Trier , † after 1528 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian architect and stonemason and from 1520 master builder of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

Life

Michel Fröschl is mentioned for the first time in 1518 as a parlier under Gregor Hauser , whose successor he took over in 1520. His closer living conditions are not known. During his tenure as master builder of the cathedral, the construction of St. Stephen's Cathedral was suspended, so that his work concentrated on furnishing work. From his hand has a drawing of a certain for the St. Stephen's Cathedral and formally the local Domkanzel related late Gothic sacrament house with Astwerkformen and curved pinnacles condition, signed Mihel Fröschl the time pawmaister here to Vienna .

Individual evidence

↑ Richard Perger: The builders of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna in the late Middle Ages . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 23, 1970, p. 91.
^ Johann Josef Böker Gothic architecture. Inventory catalog of the world's largest collection of Gothic architectural plans (legacy Franz Jäger) in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; with an appendix on the medieval architectural drawings in the Wien Museum Karlsplatz . Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2005, No. 105.068.

personal data
SURNAME	Fröschl, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Austrian architect and stonemason
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	trier
DATE OF DEATH	16th Century
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Richard Perger: The builders of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna in the late Middle Ages . In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 23, 1970, p. 91.

[2] Johann Josef Böker Gothic architecture. Inventory catalog of the world's largest collection of Gothic architectural plans (legacy Franz Jäger) in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; with an appendix on the medieval architectural drawings in the Wien Museum Karlsplatz . Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2005, No. 105.068.