Wolfgang Wiser

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Wolfgang Wiser (in the sources also: Wiesinger) (detectable 1470-1507) was an active in the Danube region foreman .

By 1489 he built the Hedwig Chapel in Burghausen Castle with its ornate vault. From 1493 he worked for the Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg. Around 1480 he was one of the most innovative vault designers, whose specialty were asymmetrical vault fields and complicated interlocking ribs. In doing so, he helped prepare the architectural work of Benedikt Ried in Prague.

literature

  • Gertrud Pretterebner: Builder Wolf Wiser . In: Burghauser Geschichtsblätter, 30 (1970), pp. 5-43.
  • Franz Bischoff: Burkhard Engelberg "the architect rich in art and the master of Augspurg Wercke". Burkhard Engelberg and southern German architecture around 1500. Comments on the social position and working methods of late Gothic stonemasons and master craftsmen . Augsburg 1999, here on Wiser p. 344ff.

proof

  1. ↑ The more recent attribution to: Pretterebner Gertrud: Baumeister Wolf Wiser . In: Burghauser Geschichtsblätter 30 (1970), pp. 5-43
personal data
SURNAME Wiser, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiesinger, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German foreman
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century