Puchspaum auch Puchsbaum, Hanns#

b. before 1390, d. after 1454, late Gothic architect. Around 1418 worked for the Ulm stonemason's lodge, documented in Vienna between 1432 and 1454; 1440 (according to other records not until 1446) was master builder at St. Stephen´s Cathedral in Vienna, directed there the construction of the vestibule of the "Singertor" (1440-1445), the vaulting of the nave (1446) and the construction of the foundations of the north tower which he had also planned (1450); constructed the choir of the parish church in Steyr (1443) and carried out the alterations at the "Spinnerin am Kreuz" monument in Vienna (1451/52). His 70 drawings (Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna) with plans for the West tower of Ulm Minster, Steyr, St. Stephen´s Cathederal, Vienna Town Hall and the Zapolya chapel in Spišsky Štvrtok, Slovakia (then Donnersmarkt) are considered the most important surviving drawings by a medieval architect.

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