Antonio Riva

St. Georg in Freising

Antonio Riva (* 1650 in Roveredo , Graubünden ; † April 29, 1713 in Valenciennes or 1714 in Bonn ), also Antonio Ripa or Antonio Giuseppe de Rippa , was a builder from Graubünden.

Riva came from Roveredo and came to Bavaria with Kaspar Zuccalli . There he worked with him in 1675 at the Oswald Church in Traunstein . He built the provost house of Sankt Martin and the stairs of the hospital of Landshut , the pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf in Vilshofen and the monastery Tegernsee .

From 1680 to 1685 he was entrusted with work on the Munich Residence under Enrico Zuccalli, and from 1681 to 1689 he built the baroque tower of the Church of St. Georg in Freising . Based on drawings by Zuccalli, he directed the construction of the Electoral Palace in Bonn and the Liège residence of Archbishop Joseph Clemens of Bavaria from Cologne . He built Zangberg Castle in 1684 for Ferdinand Maria Franz Freiherr von Neuhaus , chief treasurer of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel . He first carried out the construction of the Liechtenstein City Palace in Bankgasse in Vienna according to plans by Domenico Martinelli , which Gabriel de Gabrieli completed in 1715.

In 1701 he received a house in Bonn from the Elector Archbishop, where he has lived since then.

literature

Riva, Antonio . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 393 .
Norbert Hierl-Deronco: It is a pleasure to build. About builders, builders and building in the baroque era in Kurbayern - Franconia - Rhineland. Hierl-Deronco, Krailling 2001, ISBN 3-929884-08-9 , here chapter Zangberg-Neuhaus.
Cesare Santi: Antonio Riva. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 26, 2010 .

↑ Bruno Reiffenstein, Dagobert Frey (Ed.): Vienna In Pictures . Dr. Hans Epstein, Vienna 1927, p. 3 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive , Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Riva, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ripa, Antonio; Rippa, Antonio Giuseppe de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss architect, builder
DATE OF BIRTH	1650
PLACE OF BIRTH	Roveredo , Grisons
DATE OF DEATH	uncertain: April 29, 1713 or April 29, 1714
Place of death	Valenciennes or Bonn