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    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....
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    Today's Baroque abbey was built between 1702 and 1736 to designs by Jakob Prandtauer. Particularly noteworthy are the abbey church with frescos by Johann...
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    rebuilt in a Baroque style according to plans by Joseph Munggenast, Jakob Prandtauer and Matthias Steinl. The monastery was dissolved by order of Emperor...
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    lower Belvedere Palace in Vienna (1714–1722). In The Abbey of Melk, Jakob Prandtauer used an abundance of polychrome marble and stucco, statuary and ceiling...
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    facilities rebuilt in the Baroque style, continued by the architects Jakob Prandtauer and Donato Felice d'Allio. The plans to embellish the monastery on...
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    St Pölten Höfefest FM4 Frequency Festival Pro Golf Tour tournament Jakob Prandtauer (1660-1726), an Austrian Baroque architect, died locally. Ernst Stöhr...
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  • Poland 1691–1697 Tylman Gamerski Stift Melk Melk, Austria 1702–1736 Jakob Prandtauer Schloss Bensberg Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 1703–1711 Matteo Alberti...
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    Canons, the monastery was refurbished in the Baroque style in 1714 by Jakob Prandtauer, Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, and Josef Munggenast. The monastery...
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  • 1940), architect Alf Poier (born 1967), artist and stand-up comedian Jakob Prandtauer (1660–1726), architect Thomas Pucher (born 1969), architect Arnulf...
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  • the geometrical orders in the works of Modernes (Baltasar Neumann, Jakob Prandtauer). Moderns (and Rococo) prevailed, but, taken to a logical conclusion...
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  • Giuseppe Piermarini (1734–1808), Italian Paolo Posi (1708–1776), Italian Jakob Prandtauer (1660–1726), Austrian Giacomo Quarenghi (1744–1817), Italian/Russian...
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    StMBO III/2, 1882, pp. 241–248 Wolfgang Huber, Huberta Weigl (ed.): Jakob Prandtauer (1660–1726). Planen und Bauen im Dienst der Kirche. Exhibition catalogue...
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  • 1977: Film Award in Silver for The Conquest of the Citadel 1979: St. Jakob Prandtauer Prize for Science and Art of the city of St Pölten 1982: Great Cross...
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  • Christopher Wren appointed Surveyor of the King's Works in England. 1660 – Jakob Prandtauer, Austrian Baroque architect (died 1726) 1661 – Daniel Marot, French...
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    mustard yellow colour, was built between 1702 and 1736 to designs by Jakob Prandtauer commissioned by abbot Berthed Dietmayer against all odds faced by him...
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    Antonio Carlone, whose masterpiece is St. Florian's. After his death, Jakob Prandtauer continued the work. The result is the biggest Baroque monastery in...
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    the State Parliament of Lower Austria. In 2006, he was awarded the Jakob Prandtauer Prize for Science and Art of the City of St. Pölten. In 2014 he received...
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    Austria they were second only to Melk. The architect and builder was Jakob Prandtauer, who was also responsible for the designs of Melk Abbey. Kremsmünster...
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  • the pilgrimage church of Maria Taferl, which had to be completed by Jakob Prandtauer after Lurago died in Passau. 1637–1659: Baroque town hall, Náchod 1638–1648:...
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    baroque church that was, in its current form, built in 1706–1732 by Jakob Prandtauer and Joseph Munggenast. The ceilings were painted by Daniel Gran (1738–43)...
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    Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria 2002: Jakob Prandtauer Prize for Science and Art Austrian Decoration for Science and Art Leyrer...
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    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...
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    See de:Liste der denkmalgeschützten Objekte in Kapelln#Denkmäler, Jakob Prandtauer. After restoration it reopened in 2016 as a luxury hotel. Anton was...
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    see de:Liste der denkmalgeschützten Objekte in Kapelln#Denkmäler, Jakob Prandtauer. The property was damaged during the Second World War. After restoration...
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  • (died 1776) March 26 – Sir John Vanbrugh (born 1664) September 16 – Jakob Prandtauer (born 1660) "The Story of St Martin-in-the-Fields". St Martin-in-the-Fields...
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    in Sankt Pölten, Austria, was built by the famous Baroque architect Jakob Prandtauer (c. 1708), but Steinl seems to have been involved in the design. His...
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    Gerstenbrand and the Italian Carlo Lurago. Its famous cupola was built by Jakob Prandtauer from 1708 to 1710. He also designed the current appearance of Melk...
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  • Among his better known designs are: The interior of Melk Abbey for Jakob Prandtauer's baroque reconstruction Leopoldsberg church on Leopoldsberg above Klosterneuburg...
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    work to begin. Abbot Benedikt II Abelzhauser (1687–1717) commissioned Jakob Prandtauer (succeeded in the work by his nephew Josef Munggenast) to build the...
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  • Fischer von Erlach. Melk Abbey in Austria (begun 1702), designed by Jakob Prandtauer, is completed. Town church of Piaseczno in Poland, designed by Carl...
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