Donato Polli

Donato Polli , including: Donatus Polli (* 24. October 1663 in Muzzano in Lugano in Ticino ; † 28. December 1738 in Nuremberg ) was a particularly Franken active plasterer of the Baroque .

Life

Donato was born as the second eldest son of the builder Jacobo Polli and his wife Ottavia, b. Bossi, born in Muzzano in Ticino; his brother Johann († 1733), born in 1661, is also known as a plasterer. Another brother Luigi died in 1697.

Donato received his training in Milan and in 1690 settled in Nuremberg, where he was given city ​​protection as a plasterer on October 31, 1691 , which was extended in 1692 and continued until his death. On December 14, 1694, he married Maria Magdalena Neumeister. The four children were baptized in Nuremberg, including Catharina Philippa (* 1695), Joann (* 1698; Stuckator; † 1733 in Openingen) and Anna Maria (* 1699), all of whom died early. In Nuremberg, among other things, Donato created his main work, which was destroyed in the Second World War , with the stucco of the Egidienkirche .

After more than 40 years of professional activity, he died at the age of 75 in 1738 in Nuremberg. As a Catholic he could not be buried in the Reformation Nuremberg; so he was transferred to the bishopric of Bamberg in Büchenbach near Erlangen and buried there on January 2, 1739 in the parish church of St. Xystus that he had stuccoed 13 years earlier. His epitaph , an oval bronze plate with his coat of arms, cast by Matthias Bleul in Nuremberg, has been preserved there.

Works

Only a few of Donato Polli's works have been archived; most of them are attributed to him through a stylistic and temporal comparison:

• Stucco in the convent buildings of the Ottobeuren monastery, especially in the Amigonizzimmer (1725–1728) (attribution)
• Stucco in the house of the mint master Nürnberger in Nuremberg
• Stuck in the house of the Stadtmedicus Dr. Christoph Friedrich Gruber († 1694) in Nuremberg
• Stucco in the house of the merchant Johann Matthias Vatter in Nuremberg
• Stucco in the house of the Paumgartner patrician family in Nuremberg
• Stucco ceiling of the White Hall in Wels Castle in Neunhof near Lauf an der Pegnitz (1693–1697)
• Stucco in the house of the Kreß von Kressenstein patrician family in Nuremberg (1705)
• Stucco ceiling of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Jakobuskirche in ( Vorra -) Artelshofen (1710)
• Schwaningen , Old Castle, two stucco ceilings (bedroom and audience room, stairs "and other") (1713–1716) (destroyed)
• Baroque furnishings of the Evangelical Lutheran Egidienkirche in Nuremberg (1716–1718) (considered to be his main work; destroyed in World War II)
• Stucco in the house of Gottlieb Trost , the builder of the Egidienkirche
• Stucco in buildings of the Nuremberg merchants Schmidt and Sichart
• Salettl in the garden property Johannisstr. 19 in Nuremberg
• Stucco ceiling of the parish church of St. Maria Magdalena in Behringersdorf (1719)
• Ceiling stucco (Bandlwerk) of the castle church St. Michael von Sulzbürg
• Stucco in the Trinity Church of Lichtenau (1724)
• Ceiling stucco of the cath. Parish Church of St. Xystus in Büchenbach (1726)
• Stucco work in Herzogenaurach (destroyed)
• Stucco work in Münchaurach (1726?) (Destroyed)
• Draft of the stucco ceiling of the church of Pommelsbrunn (1726; execution order from the city of Nuremberg rejected by Polli due to work overload)
• Stucco ceilings in Grünsberg Castle , on the second floor of the main building
• Stucco work on the 2nd floor of the Red Castle in Heroldsberg
• Fembohaus in Nuremberg, stucco in the rooms on the first floor of the main building (1734/35)
• Bandlwerkstuck on the 2nd floor of the former Prince-Bishop's Residence in Eichstätt (around 1726–34)
• Stucco work in the Schnieglinger Schlösschen of the councilor Christoph Wilhelm Dannreuther (completed 1732/33)
• Stuccoing of the parlor of the Weser Castle (after 1734)
• Stucco ceiling in the salon of the pleasure garden house of the merchant Rößler on today's Sulzbacher Straße in the Nuremberg district of Wöhrd (1908-10 transferred to the later Melanchthon grammar school )

Appreciation

Donato Polli is considered the pioneer of the Lugano stucco workers in Franconia. Its stucco ceilings are certified to be of the highest quality. "Donato Polli was one of the most ingenious plasterers of the Régence and early Rococo in Bavaria." (Theodor Neuhofer, p. 80)

Staff and students

Polli's staff consisted of relatives of all degrees. These include names such as Antonio Quadri (in Polli's work force until 1735), Gerolamo Andrioli , Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi (until 1736) and the plasterers of the Würzburg residence, Antonio Giuseppe Bossi (until 1733) and Pietro Luigi Bossi . An employee from his hometown was Francesco Antonio Agostini / Augustini (born October 16, 1711), who married Polli's widow in 1739 and continued the Nuremberg workshop. For example, in 1748 he created a stucco marble niche in the church of St. Laurentius in Großgründlach and in 1750 made an altar in the former castle chapel of Abenberg; later he worked in Budapest .

The Russian court sculptor and director of the Petersburg Art Academy Hans Konrad Oßner (born March 1, 1673, † August 23, 1750) is considered to be Polli's pupil .

literature

• Ernst Eichhorn: On the share of “Welsch” artists in Franconia's baroque art . In: Erlanger building blocks for Franconian homeland research . Erlangen: Heimatverein Erlangen and the surrounding area, (6) 1959, pp. 127–157.
• Ernst G. Deuerlein: Artist in and from Erlangen . In: Contributions to art maintenance in Erlangen . Edited on behalf of the Kunstverein by Christian Kazner. Erlangen: self-rel. des Kunstverein, 1954, pp. 19–41.
• Theodor Neuhofer: Contributions to the art history of Bavaria . In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt (62) 1967/68, pp. 8–85, esp. Pp. 80 f.
• Wilhelm Schwemmer: The properties Johannisstrasse 39 and Sulzbacher Strasse 32 as examples of old Nuremberg garden culture . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg , 64 (1977), pp. 183-200.
• Christoph Niedersteiner: Donato Polli (1663–1738) - a Ticino stucco in Nuremberg . (Dissertation; published as: Donato Polli (1663-1738). Uno stuccatore ticinese a Norimberga . Edizione Comune di Muzzano 1991).
• Christoph Niedersteiner: The Ticinese stucco worker Donato Polli and his workshop as the creator of the stucco ceilings of the prince-bishop's city residence in Eichstätt . In: Collective sheet of the historical association , 84 (1991), pp. 77–122.
• Gotthard Kießling: The St. Michael Castle Church in Sulzbürg, a Protestant church building from the 18th century . In: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Kirchengeschichte , 60 (1991), pp. 21–98.

Web links

• Nuremberg, Johannisstr. 19th
• Nuremberg, Egidienkirche
• To Polli's pupil Oßner