Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi

Stucco ceiling of the Bayreuth Castle Church

Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi (* 15. September 1711 in Pregassona , today Lugano , † 5. May 1778 ) was a Swiss plasterer and sculptor of the Rococo , in Würzburg , Bayreuth and Berlin worked.

Life and works

Pedrozzi is attested for the year 1725 as an apprentice during the construction work at the Ottobeuren monastery . 1735–1740 he was involved in the decoration of the Würzburg prince-bishop's palace . From 1742 to 1746 he worked on the stuccoing of the ballrooms of the Heidecksburg in Rudolstadt.

1749 Pedrozzi was margravial court plasterer in Bayreuth, where Friedrich III. and his wife Wilhelmine developed extensive building activities in the " Bayreuth Rococo " style . He created figurative, often semi-sculptural ornamentation, etc. a. for the palace extension in the Hermitage , the palace church and the new palace with the Italian building as well as at the parish church in Neudrossenfeld .

In 1754 he was also approved as a stucco worker in Nuremberg, but was rarely there because of his work abroad. In Potsdam he took part in the decoration of the New Palace and was also active as a sculptor. In 1764 Pedrozzi went to the newly founded Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin as a modeler , where he specialized in life-size animal figures

literature

Jutta Franke: Pedrozzi, Johann Baptist. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 576 ( digitized version ).
Edoardo Agustoni: Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 14, 2017 , accessed February 13, 2020 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ Parish of Sta. Maria Pazzalino , therefore Pazzalino is given as the place of birth .
^ Celestino Trezzini: Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi. In Historisches-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , p. 386 (PDF digitized version , accessed on October 7, 2017).

personal data
SURNAME	Pedrozzi, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pedrozzi, Johann Baptist; Pedrozzi, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss rococo plasterer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pregassona (Lugano)
DATE OF DEATH	May 5, 1778
Place of death	Pregassona

[1] Parish of Sta. Maria Pazzalino , therefore Pazzalino is given as the place of birth .

[2] Celestino Trezzini: Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi. In Historisches-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , p. 386 (PDF digitized version , accessed on October 7, 2017).