Painter
30 October 1698, Welsberg (Monguelfo), South Tyrol - 20 July 1762, Vienna
A leading baroque ceiling painter. If Rottmayr’s frescoes crown the Kollegienkirche dome, Paul Troger’s Glory of Saint Cajetan crowns the nave of the Kajetanerkirche nearby. Born in the South Tyrol and trained in Venice, Bologna, and Naples, Troger returned to the Habsburg lands to create monumental ceiling frescoes in Austria’s greatest baroque monasteries and palaces.
In Salzburg, his work looks down from the Kajetanerkirche ceiling and the halls of Mirabell Palace. Together with Rottmayr and Altomonte, Troger represents the full arc of Austrian baroque ceiling painting at its most ambitious scale.
Locations
Built 1606
Built in 1606 by Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau as "Altenau," a palace for his mistress Salome Alt. Renamed "Mirabell" by Markus Sittikus. The current baroque building is largely the work of Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1721). Today it serves as Salzburg's city hall. The Marble Hall is one of the finest baroque rooms in Austria.
