Organ base of St. Stephen's Cathedral (Vienna)

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The organ base

The organ base is a Gothic sculptural choir gallery for a swallow's nest organ in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

history

The organ base was started in 1512 and most likely completed in 1513.

Originally Jörg Öchsl is said to have received the order. When the organ base was about halfway ready, the Viennese stonemasons, under the leadership of Michael Tichter, wrote a complaint, presumably to the emperor. Master Anton Pilgram from Brno had been called in without Öchsl's consent . Öchsl's statements that whoever did the small and small should also do the big were taken as a resignation and Pilgram was stopped.

After the organ base was completed, an organ was set up there, which may have been an instrument built in 1336.

description

The ledge is located on the north wall of the church in the last travée of the side aisle before the transept. It is held on the wall by loop-shaped services .

The organ base begins with a basket-shaped console . This consists of spherical pentagons that are stacked on top of one another and become larger. A constriction follows at the height of the framing of the portrait. Here leaf-like steep lobes begin to rise, separated by ribs and articulated by branched ribs.

Pilgram's plastic self-portrait

These lead to a plastic self-portrait by Anton Pilgram , who apparently has to bear everything about it. As a university scholar, he is dressed in a doctoral hat and gown and holds a square and compass in his hand. His facial features seem melancholy and should probably express his responsibility. A lettering below the portrait shows Pilgram together with the year 1513 as “Magister”.

Under the self-portrait mentioned, "painted ornamental councils with the three letters MAP and the year 1313" were found during a cleaning of the church in the 18th century. This inscription was probably touched up, changed and finally painted over during an older church restoration, so that 1515 and 1513 had erroneously become 1313.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ignaz Schlosser: The pulpit and the organ base at St. Stefan in Vienna . Logos publishing house. Vienna 1925. p. 14
  2. ↑ a b c Schlosser, p. 11
  3. ^ Günter Lade: Organs in Vienna . Edition Lade, Vienna 1990, p. 212.
  4. ↑ Reinhard H. Gruber: The St. Stephan cathedral in Vienna. 1998, p. 50.
  5. ↑ Joseph Ogesser: Description of the Metropolitan Church of St. Stephen in Vienna , 1779th
  6. ↑ Schlosser, p. 12


Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 22 ″  E