!!!Troger, Paul

b. Welsberg (Zell) im Pustertal/Val Pusteria (South Tyrol), Oct. 30, 1698, 
d. Vienna, July 20, 1762, fresco and panel painter. Was one of the 
masters of Austrian painting of the late baroque period. Spent a long 
time studying in Italy, from 1726-1728 worked in Salzburg (ceiling 
fresco of the Kajetaner Church, 1728), then in Vienna, where the art 
of ceiling frescoes was, however, dominated by J. M.  Rottmayr and D.  
Gran. T. very soon became the favourite fresco painter in Lower 
Austrian monasteries, very often worked with the architect J.  
Munggenast. 1753 to 1759 he took on the painting class in the Vienna 
Academy of Fine Arts, was its rector 1754-1757 and influenced numerous 
significant painters of the next generation (F. A.  Maulbertsch, J. I. 
 Mildorfer, J. B. W.  Bergl etc.).

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Based on upper Italian and southern German traditions, T. took full 
advantage of the principle of illusion in ceiling painting and 
consciously used light and colour for symbolic and allegorical 
purposes (Stairwell at the Monastery of Goettweig, 1739). His designs 
and works (for instance the frescoes in the Monastery of Altenburg, 
done with the assistance of his student J. J.  Zeiller) belong to the 
most significant examples of baroque fresco painting in the 
German-speaking area. After 1752 only easel paintings.

!Further works
Altar paintings: Melk Abbey, Chapel in Schoenbrunn 
Palace, Zwettl Abbey, Cathedral in Klagenfurt, Buergerspital Church 
and Muellner Church in Salzburg. - Frescoes with J. Munggenast: Church 
of the Engl. Fraeulein in St. Poelten, 1729/1730; marble hall and 
library in Melk Abbey, 1731/1732; church, stairwell and library in 
Altenburg Monastery, 1732-1734; Zwettl Abbey (1733); marble hall in 
Seitenstetten Abbey, 1735, library, 1740; marble hall in Geras 
Monastery, 1738; Pilgrimage Church Maria Dreieichen (1752). - 
Drawings, oil sketches.

!Literature
P. T. und die oe. Barockkunst, exhibition catalogue, 
Monastery of Altenburg 1963; W. Aschenbrenner and P. G. Schweighofer, 
P. T., 1965; M. Schrenzel, P. T., 1985; G. Brucher (ed.), Die Kunst 
des Barock in Oe., 1994; A. Groiss (ed.), Der Maler des Himmels - P. 
T. apokalypt. Inszenierungen im Stift Altenburg, exhibiton catalogue, 
Altenburg 1998.



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