!!!Stengg, Johann Georg

Stengg, Johann Georg, b. Dec. 23, 1689, buried Graz (Styria), 
March 19, 1753, architect, son of Andreas  Stengg. Styria´s main 
representative of late Baroque architecture; studied Italian and 
Bohemian architecture (F. Borromini, travelled to Italy 1707 and 
1715). 1741 succeeded his father as court master builder in Graz.

!Works
Styria: parish church ´Wolfsberg im Schwarzautal´, 
1733-1739; ´Barmherzigenkirche´ in Graz, 1735-1740; church 
of the monastery in Rein, 1737-1743; Redesigned several steeples: 
Strassgang, 1743, Heiligenkreuz am Waasen, 1746, Graz, St. Leonhard, 
1747.

!Literature
R. List, Kunst und Kuenstler der Stmk., vol. 3, 1974.


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