Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo
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Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo (also Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colomba ) (born December 16, 1717 in Arogno , † April 10, 1801 ibid) was a Swiss architect , church painter and set designer .
biography
Colombo learned the art of painting in Lugano. He was a student of his uncle, Luca Antonio Colombo . After working as a painter in Ticino for a few years , he left his homeland. In Germany he then worked a. a. in Ludwigsburg , where he decorated the ceiling of the opera house . He later moved to Braunschweig , Mainz , Munich and Frankfurt am Main . There he was employed in the Palais Thurn und Taxis and in 1741, at the age of 24, created the monumental fresco on the imperial staircase in the Römer in just four weeks on behalf of Emperor Karl VII under the theme The victory of virtue over vice .
In 1748 he came to Hamburg , where he accepted a job as a theater painter , where his artistic work met with great approval. This fame also penetrated the nearby Uetersen , where he was commissioned to paint the ceiling fresco of the monastery church in Uetersen . There the artist designed the ceiling fresco known as The Angel Concert or The Glorification of the Trinity in 1748/49 . This fresco later went down in art history: Since the Uetersen client did not pay him the required price, he adapted his performance to the low price and then painted unplayable instruments into it
At the same time he was also active in the higher society in Uetersen, where he created some wall paintings and decorated the villas with stucco work . Colombo was later called by the King of Hanover to create some works of art for him; then the artist moved on to London . Later on, the painter worked in Stuttgart as a builder and portrait painter for the Duke of Württemberg for almost two decades . After this time he moved back to Italy and he was in the service of the King of Sardinia . At the end of his life he returned to his old homeland, where he died at the age of 84.
His painting Cascate del Reno , 1770–1780, can be seen in the cantonal art gallery Giovanni Züst in Rancate .
literature
- Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen. Volume 1. 1932.
- Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: When Goethe wrote to Uetersen. The life of the Conventual Augusta Louise Countess zu Stolberg-Stolberg . 1989, ISBN 3-529-02695-6 .
- Lucia Pedrini Stanga: Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colomba. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 21, 2005 , accessed May 15, 2020 .
- Lucia Pedrini Stanga: Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colomba . In: Andreas Kotte (ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero. Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 393 f. (Italian)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Colombo (Colomba, Columba), Giovanni Battista Innocenzo . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 249 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Lucia Pedrini Stanga: I Colomba di Arogno. Giampiero Casagrande, Lugano 1994 (1998²), pp. 188–233, (with bibliography and catalog raisonné)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Colombo, Giovanni Battista Innocenzo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Colomba, Giovanni Battista Innocenzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect, church painter and set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1717 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arogno |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1801 |
| Place of death | Arogno |