Carlo Luca Pozzi

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Carlo Luca Pozzi, around 1774.
The New Castle in Meersburg; the stucco work in the organ gallery was made by Carlo Luca Pozzi.
One of the caryatids of the Ludwigskirche in Saarbrücken.

Carlo Luca Pozzi (born October 19, 1734 in Bruzella ; † December 12, 1812 in Castel San Pietro TI ) was a Swiss plasterer .

Life

Carlo Luca Pozzi was born as the second son of the plasterer Francesco Pozzi in Bruzella in Ticino. His older brother Giuseppe Antonio Pozzi was later also successful as a plasterer, his younger brother Domenico Pozzi worked as a portrait painter . The brothers were taken early on by their father on trips to Germany , where especially Joseph Anton and Carlo Luca received intensive instruction in the art of plastering.

Pozzi first went to Swabia , where he worked as a plasterer, and later to the Netherlands , where he gained a good reputation by working in Brussels . Finally he went to Mannheim , where his brother Joseph Anton worked as a court stucco worker. In Schwetzingen he made a fireplace based on the French model for the emperor's room of Elector Karl Theodor , which caused a sensation due to the detailed design and the depiction of all life-size figures. The Duke of Württemberg , Carl Eugen , became aware of Carlo Luca Pozzi and called him to Ludwigsburg , where Pozzi decorated his residential palace in Ludwigsburg with statues and stucco work. A number of artificial ruins in the park of Schwetzingen Castle also come from his hand. He later worked for the margrave in Baden-Baden for a long time , but also worked in Belgium , Switzerland and France .

Works (selection)

In the New Castle of Meersburg, which was built from 1712 to 1760 as the residence of the Prince-Bishops of Constance, Pozzi created filigree reliefs in the ballroom and in various rooms on the upper floors. In addition, together with Giuseppe Appiani, he designed the Borromeo Chapel in the seminary. The stairwell was built according to plans by Balthasar Neumann with frescoes by Giuseppe Appiani and stucco work by Pozzi.

"The cartouches [...] also show Pozzi as a representative of the late Rococo: the contour is broken up into richly moved individual small curves, rocailles, shell fragments and C and S curves."

In 1773, Pozzi created for Louis Church ten of the twelve pillars in female form (in Saarbrucken caryatids ) that characterize the interior of the church decisive. Pozzi's high altar in sarcophagus form in the St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn, where his father had already carried out the stucco work, also dates from around this time .

Around 1775 he was involved in the design of the Constance Minster . Gersmann-Kohl also mentions Pozzi's involvement in France:

"... so at the end of 1795 [he] designed a group of sculptures for the Place de la Concorde in which the Statue of Liberty [of the square previously known as 'Place de la Liberté'] is replaced by an allegory of unity."

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 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. meersburg.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.meersburg.de
  2. ↑ schloesser-magazin.de ( Memento of the original from October 18, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloesser-magazin.de
  3. ↑ The last two come from the hand of Johann Phillip Mihm (1774) and are considered less successful. See www.saarland.com ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ solothurn-city.ch ( Memento from August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Gudrun Gersmann, Hubertus coal (ed.): France 1800. Society, culture, mentalities . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05749-8 , pp. 16 ( books.google.com - excerpt). It is not clear from this work whether the group was realized. From 1835, Jakob Ignaz Hittorff was responsible for redesigning the square to its present appearance .
personal data
SURNAME Pozzi, Carlo Luca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pozzi, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss plasterer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruzella TI
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1812
Place of death Castel San Pietro TI