Alessandro Rossi (sculptor)

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Alessandro Rossi (* 1820 in Lugano ; † January 15, 1891 in Milan ) was a Swiss sculptor and lecturer.

Life

Alessandro Rossi was born the son of the landowner Pietro Rossi von Sessa and Rosa Trevioli. After attending the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan from 1836 to 1845, he worked as a drawing teacher at various schools in Milan, especially at the Scuola professionale operaia he founded . He also worked as a sculptor in the Lombard capital. Afterwards he returned to Lugano and was inspector of the cantonal drawing schools. In Ticino he was also the director of an elementary ornament course for technical schools.

He mainly made allegorical sculptures ( La vendemmia , 1881) and memorials and funerary monuments, including those commissioned by the Locarno municipality in 1856 in honor of Giovanni Antonio Marcacci (cemetery and Piazza Sant'Antonio), as well as cemetery works for several families from Lugano and Gentilino

literature

  • Rudy Chiappini (ed.): La ricerca di un'appartenenza, 1803-1870, catalogo della mostra Lugano. Salvioni, Bellinzona 2001, pages 433ff.
  • Gianna A. Mina: Alessandro Rossi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 23, 2010 , accessed March 19, 2020 .
  • Alfonso Panzetta: Dizionario degli scultori italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo Novecento. Volume 1. Allemandi & Company, Turin 1994.
  • Manuale della Provincia di Como per l'anno 1856. Decade II, Anno IX, Carlo e Felice Ostinelli, Como 1856, page 32.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rossi, Alessandro. In: Sikart
personal data
SURNAME Rossi, Alessandro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1891
Place of death Milan