Pozzi (artist family from Ticino)

Pozzi is a family of artists from the Swiss canton of Ticino .

Known Members:

• Antonio Pozzi (* around 1525 in Coldrerio; † after 1593 in Rome ), son of Filippo, building contractor, he employed other family members as bricklayers, including Angelo, Giovanni and Tommaso Pozzi, who worked on the Lateran Basilica and the Vatican Palace in 1597; on August 25, 1593 he signed a contract with the Apostolic Chamber for the expansion of the palace in Rome begun by Sixtus V ; for this work he allied himself with his compatriots Antonio Bolino, Ambrogio Lucca and Tommaso del Pozzo. In his home village, Antonio is credited with designing the parish church of San Giorgio.
• Filippo Pozzi (* around 1545 in Coldrerio; † after 1605 in Rome), son of Antonio, architect, he built the aqueduct and the water theater for Cardinal Pietro's Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati .
• Domenico Pozzi (* around 1560 in Coldrerio; † after 1638 in Rome), son of Donato, building contractor, builder; 1583–1585 he was paid to work on the Quirinal Palace in Rome. He was also the executive builder of the Church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini .
• Giacomo Pozzi (* around 1595 in Coldrerio, † after 1677 in Trento ), architect; he came with the architect Bartolomeo Bianchi from Coldrerio, with whom he had previously worked in Genoa , to Trento, where they built the Carmelite monastery Delle Laste around 1640. He settled in Trento with his family.
• Andrea Pozzo (also: Puteus und Pozzi; born November 30, 1642 in Trient; † August 31, 1709 in Vienna ), from Coldrerio, son of Giacomo, painter and architect. It is also no coincidence that Andrea spent two years studying in Como with a student of Pier Francesco Mola from Coldrerio.
• Carlo Maria Pozzi (1676-1747), Ticino plasterer, working in Fulda , on Berleburg Castle , in Castle Biebrich , the Idstein Castle (ca. 1714) and in the castle Philippsburg in Ehrenbreitstein.
• Francesco Pozzi (1704–1789), plasterer from Ticino
  Work (example): 1751–53 stucco in the summer refectory of the Marchtal Abbey .

• Joseph Anton Pozzi , Giuseppe Antonio P. (1732–1811), plasterer from Ticino.
  His sons, some of whom were born in Switzerland and some in Germany, were also visual artists and worked in Germany and the Netherlands:

• Francesco Antonio Pozzi (?)
• Maximilian Joseph Maria Pozzi , Massimiliano Giuseppe Maria P. (1770–1842), sculptors.
  In addition to works in other German cities, there are the tombs of Georg Freiherr von Stengel and August von Kotzebue , as well as the well-known work he has restored with the Marktplatz fountain (Mannheim) , as well as the capital decorations of the Spitalkirche (Mannheim) .
• Carlo Ignazio Pozzi (1766–1842), painter, architect and set designer.
  Around 1791 decorator in Frankfurt am Main, 1799 in the service of the Duke of Nassau. Set designer in Munich, Dessau, Halle and Leipzig.

• Carlo Luca Pozzi (1734–1812), plasterer from Ticino.
• Domenico Pozzi (1745–1796), history and portrait painter.

literature

• The Pozzi family is treated in: Ludwig Nieser:  Pozzi, Maximilian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 497 f.
• For the artist families Pozzi from Coldrerio , some of which originally came from Cornate d'Adda in Brianza , see: Giuseppe e Gabriella Solcà: I Pozzi di Coldrerio. Coldrerio: Giuseppe e Gabriella Solcà 2014.

Web links

Commons : Pozzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Antonio del Pozzo at biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 18, 2017).
2. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Antonio Pozzi. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed April 5, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Filippo Pozzi. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed April 5, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Domenico Pozzi Pozzi. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed April 5, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Giacomo Pozzi Pozzi. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed April 5, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Andrea Pozzo. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed April 5, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Andrea Pozzo. In: Mariusz Karpowicz: Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nelle prima metà del '700. Stato del Cantone Ticino, Bellinzona 1999, pp. 28, 78, 88, 92, 94, 99, 102, 107, 108, 130, 133, 156, 200, 204, 207, 208.
8. ↑ To Obermarchtal / Spiegelsaal ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Episcopal Ordinariate of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart) Quote: "... he hardly spoke German, but otherwise a pious, hardworking and accurate man"