Parakeet Pfretzschner

Parakeet Pfretzschner , also Sixtus Pfretzschner (* around 1530 in Leipzig ; † before 1587 there ), was the Renaissance councilor mason of Leipzig.

Life

Parakeet Pfretzschner was born as the third child of the Leipzig citizen and councilor mason Johann Pfretzschner around 1530 in Leipzig. He received his father's training as a master mason. On February 13, 1554, he received citizenship as "filius civi" and was able to marry Maria Ott from Torgau after Easter of the same year, with whom he had six children. Pfretzschner died in Leipzig before 1587.

Works

From 1555 he worked - partly as a council mason, partly as a private master - in numerous building projects in the city of Leipzig. He took on independent assignments, but also worked in numerous cases under the foremen Paul Speck and Paul Widemann . His work on the tower extension of the Nikolaikirche in 1556 on the construction of the old town hall is worth mentioning . His work is therefore also related to the Leipzig wholesaler and mayor Hieronymus Lotter , who was apparently one of the driving forces behind the building activity in Leipzig at the time.

literature

• Wolfram Günther: Hieronymus Lotter, important architect of the German Renaissance or myth of art history? Hieronymus Lotter and the construction of the Old Leipzig City Hall . Leipzig 2002 [Master's thesis, typescript in the Leipzig University Library].
• Wolfram Günther: Hieronymus Lotter. In: The Builders of the “German Renaissance” A Myth in Art History? ed. v. Arnold BARTETZKY, Beucha 2004, pp. 73-110.