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Seitenstetten Abbey
Seitenstetten Abbey (german: Stift Seitenstetten) is a Benedictine monastery in Seitenstetten in the '' Mostviertel'' region of Lower Austria. History The monastery was founded in 1112 by Udalschalk, or Udiskalk, a relative of Bishop Ulrich of Passau, to which he gave all his estates as an endowment. In 1114 the new foundation was settled by monks from Göttweig Abbey. Bishop Ulrich dedicated the church in 1116 and granted the abbey the large parish of Aschbach. In 1142 it also received the large parish of Wolfsbach. Out of these two original parishes were formed the fourteen modern parishes for which the abbey is still responsible. In about 1180 Archbishop Wichmann of Magdeburg granted the abbey the extensive woodlands on the Ybbs, with the duty of setting up a cell there and celebrating divine service in perpetuity. There is also some indication in the first century of the abbey's existence that there was already a school. Despite many setbacks, including two serious fires a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seitenstetten - Stift
Seitenstetten is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria. Geography Seitenstetten lies in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. About 25.84 percent of the municipality is forested. History One ''Udalschalk ''or'' Udiskalk'', first mentioned in 1109, founded a monastery there in 1112 and gave all of his properties in ''Seitenstetten, Grünbach, Heft'' and ''Stille'' (in today's Upper Austria). In 1114, Benedictine monks from Göttweig Abbey were installed there. In 1116, Bishop ''Ulrich I. von Passau'', related to the Udalschalk family, consecrated the abbey's church and donated the large ''Aschbach'' parish. In 1142, parish ''Wolfsbach'' was added. Those two major parishes were, by the time, split up into the fourteen parishes of which the abbey is in charge up to now. Around 1180, Wichmann von Seeburg, Archbishop of Magdeburg The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was a Roman Catholic archdiocese (969–1552) and Prince-Archbishopric (1180–1680) of the Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 19th century. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in the past often referred to as "late Baroque") and Neoclassical styles. It was encouraged by the Catholic Church as a means to counter the simplicity and austerity of Protestant architecture, art, and music, though Lutheran Baroque art developed in parts of Europe as well. The Baroque style used contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep colour, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe. The style began at the start of the 17th century in Rome, then spread rapidly to France, northern Italy, Spain, and Portugal, then to Austria, southern Germany, and Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and clockwise, from the southwest, by the Austrian states of Carinthia, Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and Burgenland. The state capital is Graz. Etymology The March of Styria derived its name from the original seat of its ruling Otakar dynasty: Steyr, in today's Upper Austria. In German, the area is still called "Steiermark" while in English the Latin name "Styria" is used. The ancient link between Steyr and Styria is also apparent in their nearly identical coats of arms, a white Panther on a green background. Geography * The term "Upper Styria" (german: Obersteiermark) refers to the northern and northwestern parts of the federal-state (districts Liezen, Murau, Murtal, Leoben, Bruck-Mürzzuschlag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radmer
Radmer is a municipality in the district of Leoben in Austrian state of Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to .... Population References Ennstal Alps Cities and towns in Leoben District {{Styria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kremser Schmidt
Martin Johann Schmidt, called ''Kremser Schmidt'' or ''Kremserschmidt'', (25 September 1718 – 28 June 1801), was one of the outstanding Austrian painters of the late Baroque/Rococo along with Franz Anton Maulbertsch. He was born at Grafenwörth, lower Austria, a son of the sculptor Johannes Schmidt. A pupil of Gottlieb Starmayr, he spent most of his life at Stein, where he mostly worked in the numerous churches and monasteries of his Lower Austrian homeland. While the evolution of his style after 1750 shows that he had either spent a formative period in northern Italy or had at least had extensive contact with northern Italian works of art prior to that date, his works are also clearly influenced by Rembrandt (visible above all in his etchings) and the great fresco-painters of the Austrian Baroque, Paul Troger and Daniel Gran. Despite not having received formal academic training, in 1768 he was made a member of the imperial academy at Vienna due to his artistic merits, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolomeo Altomonte
Bartolomeo Altomonte, also known as Bartholomäus Hohenberg (24 February 1694, in Warsaw – 11 November 1783, in Sankt Florian), was an Austrian baroque painter who specialized in large scale frescoes. He was the son of Martino Altomonte, also a painter. Biography Altomonte was born in Warsaw, where his father, Martino Altomonte, had been appointed to the court of Jan Sobieskis. He was the third of six children. Altomonte spent most of his life in Linz and worked primarily in Austrian monasteries such as St. Florian's Priory and Admont Abbey.; He learned from assisting his father at painting, but also from an apprenticeship with Daniel Gran. Tendencies towards the rococo remained foreign to the artist all his life; he is considered one of the last great painters in the manner of the baroque allegory. References Bibliography * * * * * External links Entry for Bartolomeo Altomonteon the Union List of Artist Names The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Troger
Paul Troger (30 October 1698 – 20 July 1762) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of the late Baroque period. Troger's illusionistic ceiling paintings in fresco are notable for their dramatic vitality of movement and their palette of light colors. Paul Troger’s style, particularly in his frescoes, dominated Austrian painting until the end of the 18th century and profoundly influenced significant artists of the next generation, notably Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Johann Wenzel Bergl and Johann Lucas Kracker. Life Paul Troger was born on 30 October 1698 in Welsberg, in the Puster Valley of the County of Tyrol. At the age of 16, under the patronage of the aristocratic Tyrolean von Firmian family, he visited Fiume and became a pupil of Giuseppe Alberti. He painted his first fresco “Three Angels with the Cross and Putti”, in the Kalvarienkirche, Kaltern (1722). In 1722, the prince-bishop of Gurk sent Paul Troger to Venice, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer
Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (9 March 1660 (baptized) – 25 December 1718) was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School. Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey. A sculptor and stuccoist, he (along with his brother Johann Michael) was responsible for the choir stalls in the Benedictine monastery church in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, and for the sculptures on the altars and pulpits in the Parish Church of St. Maria in Seitenstetten, Austria. He also assisted in the rebuilding of the Salem Abbey, destroyed in a fire in 1697.''Germany: A Phaidon Cultural Guide''. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985. p. 645. . He died in Mimmenhausen (near Salem, Bodensee). He was the brother of Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Elder) and Michael Feuchtmayer (b. 1667); the father of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (1696–1770); the uncle of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1705–1764) and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gothic Architecture
Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. It originated in the Île-de-France and Picardy regions of northern France. The style at the time was sometimes known as ''opus Francigenum'' (lit. French work); the term ''Gothic'' was first applied contemptuously during the later Renaissance, by those ambitious to revive the architecture of classical antiquity. The defining design element of Gothic architecture is the pointed or ogival arch. The use of the pointed arch in turn led to the development of the pointed rib vault and flying buttresses, combined with elaborate tracery and stained glass windows. At the Abbey of Saint-Denis, near Paris, the choir was reconstructed between 1140 and 114 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Munggenast
Josef Munggenast (5 March 1680 – 3 May 1741) was an Austrian architect and masterbuilder of the Baroque period. Munggenast was born in Schnann in Tyrol, the nephew of Jakob Prandtauer, who advanced his career and whose influence marked his style for the whole of his life. From 1717 Munggenast was master mason in Sankt Pölten. After Prandtauer's death in 1726 Munggenast continued the projects his uncle had in hand, principally at Melk Abbey Melk Abbey (german: Stift Melk) is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, Lower Austria, Austria, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river, adjoining the Wachau valley. The abbey contains the tomb of Saint Coloman of Stockerau and th ..., Herzogenburg Priory and the Pilgrimage Church of the Holy Trinity on the ''Sonntagberg'' near Seitenstetten Abbey, for which he was the masterbuilder from 1718. Together with Matthias Steinl he built the towers at Zwettl Abbey and Dürnstein Abbey. His main works are the Baroque refur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Prandtauer
Jakob Prandtauer (baptized in Stanz bei Landeck (Tyrol) on 16 July 1660; died in Sankt Pölten on 16 September 1726) was an Austrian Baroque architect. Trained as a stonemason rather than as an architect, he designed and supervised the construction of the church of Melk Abbey, in Melk, Lower Austria. He was the uncle of Josef Munggenast, who inherited his business and continued his style. References Bibliography * * Huberta Weigl, ''Prandtauer, Jakob.'' In ''Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL)''. Vol. 96, de Gruyter, Berlin 2017, , . * Hugo Hantsch, ''Jakob Prandtauer. Der Klosterarchitekt des österreichischen Barock'', Vienna 1926. * Huberta Weigl, ''Jakob Prandtauer 1660–1726. Baumeister des Barock'' (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte, Band 183), Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg Petersberg may refer to: * The Hotel Petersberg near Bonn, the site of the ** Petersberg Agreement, 1949, reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seitenstetten Innen
Seitenstetten is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria. Geography Seitenstetten lies in the Mostviertel in Lower Austria. About 25.84 percent of the municipality is forested. History One ''Udalschalk ''or'' Udiskalk'', first mentioned in 1109, founded a monastery there in 1112 and gave all of his properties in ''Seitenstetten, Grünbach, Heft'' and ''Stille'' (in today's Upper Austria). In 1114, Benedictine monks from Göttweig Abbey were installed there. In 1116, Bishop ''Ulrich I. von Passau'', related to the Udalschalk family, consecrated the abbey's church and donated the large ''Aschbach'' parish. In 1142, parish ''Wolfsbach'' was added. Those two major parishes were, by the time, split up into the fourteen parishes of which the abbey is in charge up to now. Around 1180, Wichmann von Seeburg, Archbishop of Magdeburg, donated large woods near the Ybbs Ybbs () is a river in Lower Austria. Its drainage basin is . Its source is located on the Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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