Reichardt Fux
Reichardt Fux (* 1654 in Eggenburg , Lower Austria ; † September 4, 1699 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary, today Burgenland) was an Austrian master stonemason of the Baroque .
Life
Fux learned the stonemason craft from Eggenburg master Paul Strickner, the acquittal took place on August 7, 1672.
Judicial office
Master Fux married Catharina in 1690, daughter of Antonius Pery and wife Anna Catharina, née Retacco. Since her parents had died in the Turkish wars , she was in the land register with half a quarry and house. After the death of the judge Ambrosius Ferrethi on February 22, 1696, the successor was not given to one of the two sons-in-law Martin Trumler or Giovanni Battista Passerini , but with Reichardt Fux, the first German master in the imperial quarry on Leithaberg was appointed judge.
Liechtenstein City Palace, Bankgasse portal
View of the Liechtenstein City Palace
Grand staircase
detail
City palace of Prince Eugene
Grand staircase
detail
The masters of the Kaisersteinbruch stonemasonry
Fux served as judge from 1696 to 1699, his co-masters in these years in the craft of stonemasons and masons in Kaisersteinbruch were Johann Georg Haresleben , Ambrosius Hutter, Johann Baptist Kral , Giovanni Battista Passerini, Martin Trumler.
Tax list 1699
In the tax list of 1699 Fux was entered with a quarry, a house and four cows.
Reichardt Fux died on September 4, 1699. Giovanni Battista Passerini was his successor. Its epitaph was in the Kaisersteinbruch Church , now it is privately owned.
The inscription reads:
- MASTER REICHARDT FUX / GEWESTER RICHTER IN THE FOURTH YEAR / .. 46 YEARS .. / FINAL SLEEPING ON THE 4TH OF SEBDEMBER ANNO 1699 / GOD GIVE IME A ROLE RESURRECTION AND A BLESSED END TO US ALL. AMMEN.
Catharina Fuxin, the 26-year-old widow, married on November 23, 1700 in the Schottenkirche in Vienna the Eggenburg stonemason journeyman Johann Paul Schilck , who was 34 years old at the time. One of the witnesses was the master of the groom master Johann Carl Trumler . From the inheritance she gave her brother, Master Johannes Pery , a floor building with two rooms . Jacob Fux, son of the late judge Reichardt Fux, hired master Johannes Pery as a stonemason apprentice in 1703.
Works
- 1691–1694: Liechtenstein City Palace , with Ferrethi family clan. Portals, columns etc. made of Kaiserstein.
- 1694–1698: City palace of Prince Eugen , architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , stonemason commission for Thomas Schilck, Viennese master stonemason with Eggenburg origins. Working in Kaiserstein - grand staircase, columns, pilasters, step stones, etc. Master Reichardt Fux. Sculptor Giovanni Giuliani
Archival material
- Archive of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna : Court artists and craftsmen .
- Vienna City and State Archives : Steinmetzakten .
- Heiligenkreuz Abbey: Archive, church records, registers, will of Reichardt Fux: Work for Prince Liechtenstein.
literature
- Otto E. Plettenbacher: History of the stonecutters of Vienna in the 17th century. An economic and cultural historical as well as sociological investigation. Price list from 1688, set order of the stone carvings . Dissertation, University of Vienna 1960.
- Helmuth Furch : The Fux and Schilck families . In: Messages from the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association . No. 4, 1991, pp. 5-10. ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
- Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . 2 volumes. Museum and cultural association Kaisersteinbruch 2002–2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .
- Burghard Gaspar: The white stone of Eggenburg. The Zogelsdorf sand-lime brick and its masters . In: The Waldviertel . Issue 4, 1995.
Individual evidence
- ^ Archives Mosonmagyaróvár , List of taxpayers in quarry 1699
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fux, Reichardt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian master stonemason in the Baroque era, judge in Kaisersteinbruch |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1654 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eggenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 1699 |
| Place of death | Kaisersteinbruch |