Voit Pál: Barokk tervek és vázlatok (1650-1760) (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 1980)

Father Martin Wittwer, architect of Carmelite Friars of the St. Leopold province had activities over a large definite territory. His plans for the Carmelite church of Győr have survived (Cat. Nos. 14—18.). His series of plans, the first variant of which was completed arou.id 1714, gives a clear idea of the changes which occured during the building process of the church, of the central design thus following the Italian pattern. Though the plans had been approved by the order's abbot and the foundation-stone had been laid much earlier, the construction itself took place only in 1722. Then a new plan was made; the original, very high arched, as if free floating cupola — to be lit through a lantern — was replanned by Wittwer, applying now lower arches, and covering the cupola with onionshaped roof. Later on, however, the design was further modified:the onion-shaped shellvault of the gable roof, that followed the bow of the wall, was also omitted. Wittwer — Tyrolean by birth — was trained to a mason in Prague, where as a laic friar he entered the Carmelite Order. The builder of the St. Joseph's church in Prague, Johann Martin Rass — equally Tyrolean — took Wittwer - Brother Athanasius — to the building of the order's church in Linz to control the construction works. The church of the Carmelite nuns in Linz was his independent work. It is practically of the same design as the one in Győr. The abbey church at Spital am Phyrn is also his work. Though it has an obvious similarity to Wittwer's design of the Cistercian church of Zirc it was attributed — until recently — to Michael Prunner. In 1726 after his plans the front of the Jesuit church in Győr was altered; the church of the "Hungarian infirmary", the Calvary chapel with the Stations in Győr, the Baroque wing with its magnificient refectory of the monastery in Pannonhalma, the Cistercian monastery and church in Zirc were also his works. The Baroque facade of the Romanesque cathedral in Veszprém, the Franciscan church in Sümeg, the Benedictine abbey in Tihany and the church of the St. Paul's order in Pápa — accomplished this latter after his death — comprised his rich oeuvre to which the carmélite churches of Szakolca and that of the Bohemian Pacov can be added. Wittwer's style can be linked to the Upper Danubian circle of Linz, to Prunner's and Prantauer's architecture most obviously through his work at Spital am Phyrn. Paul Hatzinger, the architect of the Carmelite and Cistercian (formerly Jesuit) churches of Székesfehérvár came from Linz. The perspective drawing of this latter will be shown at the exhibition, (Cat. No. 65.). The master mason Matthias Kayr came from St. Florian near Linz and settled in Buda. He participated in the execution of Wittwer's plan in Zirc. The master circle called "Danubian Baroque building school" is a significant contributor to the early 18th century Hungarian architecture. The recently discovered series of plan documents of the episcopal cathedral in Temesvár have particular significance (Cat. No. 32.). They are signed by "Karl Joseph Römmer Provincial Ingenieur", and made after the imperial chief architect Fischer von Erlach's original plans. The authenticity of the copies is shown by the biversal solution of the helmet-shaped frontal spires, thus indicating a phase when decision wasn't taken yet for the selection of the final variant. The aerial perspective plan, made in 1739 by the provincial master-builder Franz Anton Pilgram from Lower Austria, is even more spectacular,and an outstanding piece of graphic work. It is with brilliant ease that the excellent Viennese master represented the monastic ensemble of Szentgotthárd together with its environment and the lively scenes of the holiday and everyday activities of the age. To his chronologically later plans we shall return (Cat. Nos. 33-34.). Though Kristóf Hamon's ground and frontal plans of the former Jesuit church St. Anne — one of the loftiest buildings in Buda — was altered by Mátyás Nöpauer, master-mason from Mainz, the change is not essential (Cat. No. 35.). The history of the rather complicated building process of the Castle of Buda is also illustrated by some sheets. The surveys of the southern quadrangular building and wing —