MOOSBRUGGER, KASPAR. — Architect, born on 22 July 1656 at Au im Bregenzerwald, died on 26 August 1723 at Einsiedeln. He worked throughout almost the whole of Catholic Switzerland, where he is regarded as the foremost architect.
He provided drawings and plans for the cloisters of Disentis and Muri, and worked at Munsterlingen, Sarnen, Garfenort, Maristein, Bellinzona, Seedorf, Kalchrain, Rheinau, etc. The masterpieces of his activity are considered to be the cloister of Einsiedeln, whose model dates from 1793 and which, with its sober yet pictorial movement of masses, constitutes one of the most complete and restrained religious buildings of the Baroque; and the rebuilding of the monastery of S. Gallo (already planned in 1720 and carried out in 1755), whose original plan, however, was reworked by Peter Thumb and by M.’s son, Franz Beers, who completed the construction in 1767.