Giovanni Catenazzi
Giovanni Catenazzi , also in January Catenazzi called (* 1660 in Morbio Inferiore , † after 1724 in Poznan ), was from Switzerland originating and Poland acting architect .
life and work
Around 1662 he followed his father, Andrea Catenazzi, who had settled there earlier, to Poland. At first he lived and worked in Leszno , where he built the parish church of St. Nicholas from around 1692–1697. He then built the church in Stary Białcz near Kościan from 1696 . In 1698 Jesuits obliged him to build the collegiate church of St. Stanislaus for them and in 1701 the Jesuit college in Posen.
He was also u. a. responsible for the reconstruction of the Dominican Church of the Most Holy Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Consolation (Jesuit Fathers ) in Poznan (1700), the Cistercian monastery in Obra (1701–1702) and in January 1720 the building of the Franciscan Church in Woźniki .
He was an excellent representative of the classicist Warsaw Baroque and is credited with numerous other buildings.
literature
- Antoni Gąsiorowski, Jerzy Topolski : Wielkopolski Słownik Biograficzny. Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa and Poznań 1983, ISBN 83-01-02722-3
- Mariusz Karpowicz: Giovanni Catenazzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 26, 2005 , accessed May 14, 2020 .
- Mariusz Karpowicz: Artisti ticinesi in Polonia nel '600. Edizioni dello Stato, Bellinzona 1983, pp. 141-143.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church of the Most Holy Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Consolation on poznan.pl/mim/turystyka/de/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Catenazzi, Giovanni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Catenazzi, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect in Poland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1660 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morbio inferiore |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1724 |
| Place of death | Poses |