Giovanni Battista Camessina

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Giovanni Battista Camessina (as in Pfister, p. 231, otherwise mostly Johann Baptist Camesino ) (* 1642 in Monticello near San Vittore ; † October 9 or October 17, 1724 in Obermässing ) was a master builder and architect from Graubünden in Eichstätt .

The church of Pietenfeld
The church tower in Buxheim, built by Camesino in 1685 in its current form
The church of Erlingshofen

Life

Little is known about him personally: According to the Obermässing parish register, Johann Baptist Camesino, as he is called in Eichstätter sources, donated a big bell for the church of Obermässing as “magistrate here and master builder”. Camesino was the uncle of the Baroque plasterer Alberto Camesina from Graubünden , who worked in Salzburg and Vienna. He was married and had three sons, namely Johann Albert, Princely Kastner zu Eichstätt, Johann Georg, Weinwirt ("Zum Fürstenwirt") and City Councilor in Beilngries and Anton in Hilpoltstein (1716 marriage in Vienna with his cousin Alberto Camesina), and two daughters .

Works

He mostly built churches in the Eichstätt Monastery, for larger projects according to plans by the Eichstätter court architect Jakob Engel (Giacomo Angelini), who also came from Monticello, and for smaller projects also according to his own plans, as in:

  • Berching , St. Lorenz Church (1680–1685 reconstruction; 1686 new portal)
  • Berching , (new) parish church of the Assumption of Mary (1684/1685 reconstruction according to Engel plans)
  • Bettbrunn , pilgrimage church St. Salvator (1683 tower design according to Engel plans)
  • Buxheim , parish church St. Michael (1685 tower redesign according to Engel plans)
  • Pietenfeld , parish church St. Michael (1687–1689 new nave and tower elevation according to Engel plans)
  • Forehead , Parish Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary (1688 restoration according to Engel plans)
  • Beilngries , parish church St. Walburga (1686 tower repair; 1688 preparation of plans for the conversion; 1693/1694 conversion probably under him; 1913 new building)
  • Raitenbuch , parish church St. Blaise (1689 masonry work on the tower after lightning strike)
  • Österberg , St. Stephan Church (1690/1691 baroque redesign: vault, west gallery, tower elevation)
  • Oening , parish church of St. Nikolaus (1693–1695 new building by Camesino under the direction of Engels)
  • Untermässing , parish church of St. Leodegar (1694–1696 new choir and nave, according to their own or Engel plans)
  • Röckenhofen , parish church St. Agidius (1693 nave, tower)
  • Eichlberg , parish and pilgrimage church of the Holy Trinity (1697–1702; completed in 1711 by the Stadtamhofer master builder Martin Strauss )
  • Eichlberg , conversions of various buildings (Kaplanshaus, school and sacristan's house) (1696–1698, construction management)
  • Hausen , Church of St. Peter and Paul (1689 reconstruction, probably according to Engel plans)
  • Obermässing, Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary (new vaulting at the end of the 17th / beginning of the 18th century)
  • Altendorf im Gailachtal, pilgrimage church Maria End (1701/1702 conversion according to Engel plans)
  • Landerzhofen , St. Thomas Church (1702 with journeymen for 21 days of repair work, extension to the west, 1708 new sacristy)
  • Adelschlag , St. Andreas Church (1707 reconstruction according to Engel plans)
  • Töging , Parish Church of St. Bartholomew (1707 increase of the nave, the choir vault and the tower) (demolished in 1850 and replaced by a new building)
  • Walting , Parish Church of the Assumption of Mary (1707/1708 paid proposal to repair structural damage)
  • Allersberg , new parish church of the Assumption of Mary (1708–1710 probably built according to our own plan)
  • Arberg , St. Blasius Church (1709/1710, plans)
  • Kaldorf , parish church St. Andreas (1709 baroque)
  • Plankstetten Abbey , abbey church (1709/1710 involved in the renovation under Engel)
  • Erlingshofen , branch church of the Visitation of Mary (1711 nave, west tower erected, choir tower shortened)
  • Haunstetten , parish church St. Erhard (1711 upper floors)
  • Hilpoltstein , parish church St. Johannes Bapt. (1714 tower closure)
  • Jahrsdorf , parish church of the Birth of Mary (1719 proposals for renovation)

literature

  • Friedrich Hermann Hofmann, Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. XII Bezirksamet Beilngries. I. District Court of Beilngries. Oldenbourg, Munich 1908. Reprint 1982. p. 12 (footnote 1), p. 33f., 162.
  • Arnoldo Marcelliano Zendralli: I magistri grigioni. 1958, p. 76f.
  • The Eichstätter area past and present. 2nd Edition. Sparkasse Eichstätt, Eichstätt 1984.
  • Gabriele Schmid: The Eichstätter Hofbaumeister Jakob Engel (1632–1714). 1987, pp. 63f.
  • Max Pfister: Master builder from Graubünden - pioneer of the baroque. Bündner Monatsblatt, Chur 1993, p. 231.
  • Cesare Santi: Camessina, Giovanni Battista. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2003 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cesare Santi: Alberto Camessina. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 2, 2003 .
personal data
SURNAME Camessina, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camesino, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss baroque architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Monticello , San Vittore
DATE OF DEATH October 1724
Place of death Obermässing