Gennaro Basile

Self-Portrait

Gennaro Basile (* 1722 in what was then the Kingdom of Naples ; † July 22, 1782 in Brno , Moravia ) was an Italian painter and draftsman.

Life

There is no information about the exact place of birth and his artistic training. He emigrated to Austria; he lived in Pressburg (now Bratislava ) , among other places . There he married Katharina Jelinek. Further stations:

• In 1752 (approx.) Basile worked for the Esterházy family in Hungary.
• In 1753, a daughter was baptized in Sopron , Hungary .
• 1755 (approx.) He works in Salzburg , Seekirchen am Wallersee .
• In 1766 he is listed as court painter to the Archbishop of Prague.
• In 1780 he settled in Brno , but was also active in Austria, probably in Melk .

Works

• Between 1742 and 1746 made Basile drawings Serbian and Croatian soldiers from the Spanish and Silesian War of Succession as a template for the etchings of Christian Wilhelm on.
• Around 1750 "Portrait gallery of the Styrian nobility" for Hainfeld Castle
• 1756 Oil sketch for the altarpiece of the chapel of Seeburg Castle , Seekirchen (in the Archbishop's seminar Borromäum ).
• Self-portrait, Schloss Leopoldskron , Salzburg.
• 1755 Death of St. Rupert, ceiling painting, chapel of Seeburg Castle, Seekirchen.
• 1755 Madonna enthroned with Saints Friedrich and Rupert, altarpiece in the Seeburg Castle chapel, Seekirchen.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Basile, Januarius . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 175 ( digitized version ).
• J. Krcálová:  BASILE (Basile), Gennaro (Ianuarius). In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 7:  Bartolucci – Bellotto. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1965, pp. 75-76.

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