Giovanni Battista Casanova
Giovanni Battista Casanova or Giambattista Casanova , also Johann Baptist Casanova (born November 2, 1730 in Venice , † December 8, 1795 in Dresden ), was an Italian painter and draftsman who lived and worked mainly in Dresden and Rome .
family
Giovanni Battista was the third of the six children of Gaetano Casanova (1697–1733) and Giovanna, née Farussi (1708–1776), who lived in Venice. His parents were actors. His older brother Giacomo Casanova was the famous adventurer and writer. The brother Francesco Casanova, who was also very successful as a painter, was court painter in Vienna.
Giovanni Battista Casanova was married to Teresa Roland (1744–1779), with whom he had several children. At the time of his death, he lived in Dresden, Lochgasse No. 445.
Artistic creation
Casanova was a student of Louis de Silvestre (1675–1760), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1683–1754), Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich , called Dietricy (1712–1774) and Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779). He studied in Rome, Paris and Dresden. In December 1764 he came back from Rome to Dresden and became a co-founder, professor and from 1776 - together with Johann Eleazar Zeissig called Schenau (1737-1806) - director of the Dresden Art Academy . His students included Angelika Kauffmann (1741–1807), Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein (Reifenstein) (1719–1793) and Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768). For Winckelmann, Casanova drew archaeological pieces from Pompeii and Herculaneum for his Monumenti antichi inediti , published in 1767 . According to Winckelmann, G. B. Casanova was "the greatest draftsman in Rome". His contemporaries considered him an excellent draftsman and copyist, mainly of the works of Raphael .
Final resting place
Casanova found his final resting place on December 11, 1795 in Dresden in the Old Catholic Cemetery in the Friedrichstadt district . His former student Franz Pettrich designed the tomb .
literature
- Carl Clauss: Casanova, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 39 f.
- Roland Kanz: The Casanova brothers. Artist and adventurer. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin et al. 2013. ISBN 978-3-422-07211-4 .
- Roland Kanz: Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730–1795). An artist career in Rome and Dresden (= Phantasos. 7). Fink, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4459-2 .
- Werner Teupser: Casanova, Giovanni Battista. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 163 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Giovanni Battista Casanova in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Archives of the State Capital Dresden, Church weekly papers 1685 / 1703-1902, July 2, 1795 to January 1, 1796, p. 465.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ City Archives of the State Capital Dresden, Church weekly papers 1685 / 1703-1902, July 2, 1795 to January 1, 1796, p. 465.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casanova, Giovanni Battista |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1730 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1795 |
| Place of death | Dresden |