Bartholomeus Bossi

Bartholomeus Bossi (* around 1713 , † after 1764 ) was a stucco worker .

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Bartholomeus Bossi came from a large family of stucco workers who came from northern Italy. Members of the family designed many residences in Germany and Austria. Bartholomeus Bossi, who, possibly traveling via Lübeck , is recorded in Plön from 1744 , married Anna Elsabe, née Otten, widowed Classen († 1789) here on April 10 of the same year. The couple had a daughter who married the gardener from Plön named Klein. A descendant of the two named R. Brockhaus, who had his residence in Berlin in 1939 , documented the historical data of the family.

On July 28, 1744, Bossi leased the nearby Plön Fegetasche , a customs house with an inn between Edebergsee and Großer Plöner See , known since the Middle Ages , directly on today's B 76 . The rent to be paid amounted to 159 Reichstaler annually. The contract negotiated with Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön was to come into force on Michaelmas Day 1744 with a term of 20 years. Bossi thus had an agriculture, fishing, a collection point for customs duties and a jug economy.

Bossi worked as a poorly paid stuccoer and probably hoped to be able to generate sufficient further income with the lease of the sweeping bag. The Duke's chamber cut his bills, repeatedly failed to pay them and withheld rent. In 1749 and 1755 Bossi asked the duke in writing for help because of his precarious economic situation. Apparently the stuckator was not able to manage the sweeping bag sufficiently as a sideline.

Bossi's well-known jobs as a stucco maker included Traventhal Castle (1744–1749), Plön Castle (1744–1757) and the Prinzenhaus there (1747–1750). Duke Friedrich Carl noted that Bossi would not receive any payment “if he has finished and re-produced his work at the local castle and in Traventhal”. From 1745 he created the rococo stucco ceiling on Gut Emkendorf , which Jean Henri Desmercières bought in 1764 . In Desmercière's environment, Bossi, and possibly his journeyman Anton Renn, designed stucco in the widow's palace .

Only a few of the works by Bossi, which he created on behalf of the ducal, have survived. Since he had no job as a court plasterer, he was also able to take on other assignments. As the most important Rococo artist in Schleswig-Holstein alongside Carlo Donato Martini , his situation did not improve for life. In 1755 he asked to be allowed to deliver the Eutinian Post "to prevent its complete demise".

After the death of Duke Friedrich Carl and the associated transfer of the duchy to the Danish crown in 1761, Bossi's creative period in the region very likely ended. It is known that King Friedrich V paid him 100 thalers a year for stucco work in 1764. Since this amount is low, Bossi may have made repairs.

literature

• Irmgard Schlepps: Bossi, Bartholomeus. In: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon. Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 74-76.

Individual evidence

1. ^ R .: Bossi (Bussi), family . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 404-405 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ). does not mention him.
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