Giovanni Maria Nosseni

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Depiction of Nossenis on his tomb, the Nosseni epitaph

Giovanni (Johann) Maria Nosseni (born May 1, 1544 in Lugano ; † September 20, 1620 in Dresden ) was a sculptor from Switzerland .

Life

Nothing is known about Nosseni's training. In 1575 he settled in Dresden.

In response to a request from Elector August von Sachsen to Baron Hans Albrecht von Sprintzenstein that alabaster and marble had been discovered in the country and that he needed an “ artful master who knows how to work these stones skillfully, ” Nosseni sent him a letter of recommendation (Linz the Danube, January 16, 1575): he is a "master and artist whose profession is not one, but various excellent types" ... to Saxony.

The Nosseni altar of the Dresden Sophienkirche designed in 1606/07 , since 2002 altar of the Loschwitz church

Giovanni (Johann) Maria Nosseni appeared with a journeyman in Dresden at the end of January 1575. The elector ordered Paul Buchner to have test pieces made from Thuringian alabaster for Nosseni, and he granted him board and lodging. At the end of April Nosseni went to Weißensee and reported on May 21 that there were large blocks of marbled alabaster to be won. The elector ordered him to send pads for a sideboard to Torgau and to look for pure white alabaster for sculptures. Nosseni was hired as a painter and sculptor in July 1575. In Weissensee he had approached the Lutheran religion by listening to sermons and reading the Bible and changed his faith. In April 1576 he made a trip to Austria. On May 1, 1577 he married Elisabeth Unruh, the daughter of the former Syndicus von Liegnitz. He brought his father and his brother Pietro to Torgau. Elisabeth died on February 13, 1591, he concluded his second marriage on February 3, 1595 with Christiane Hanisch, daughter of the electoral land rent master Mathias Hanisch. She also died before him on November 29, 1606 and he married a third time to the twenty-year-old Anna Maria von Rehnen, the daughter of the electoral mint master Heinrich von Rehnen. On his tomb , the Nosseni epitaph , fragments of which are in the Dresden City Museum , Nosseni and his three wives are depicted.

In 1577 the plague broke out in Torgau and Nosseni went to Weißensee. A year later he was back in Torgau. In 1579 he had made two stone tables set with mugs, bowls and bowls, two busts of Roman emperors and a chair with cut stones. From 1580 to 1613 he supplied alabaster and serpentine work for Lichtenburg Castle near Prettin , the widow's seat of the Saxon princesses.

In October 1580 he was suddenly released. He asked to pick up the finished work from his workshop, but to be allowed to keep the unfinished "since he was a stranger in the country and otherwise abandoned by all over the world". During the negotiations that followed, the first ideas for the Freiberg funeral chapel were discussed. In 1583 he was again in the service of the elector. On May 26, 1585, he acquired a house in Dresden on the electoral account, “the corner house between Hofschmiede and Elbtore opposite the coin”, on the site of the current estate. He was supposed to "expand it into a common town ornament", set up a workshop and warehouse, but received no tax exemption.

On May 5, 1585, he was prescribed the marble quarry he discovered near Lengefeld in the Ore Mountains for 20 years. In the years 1586 and 1587 he discovered in old Kalkbrüchen black marble in lime green , red at Wildenfels and white in Crottendorf .

The Wettins are buried in Freiberg Cathedral

At the beginning of October 1585, Buchner and Nosseni went to Freiberg to see funerals in the cathedral choir , "how a princely crypt would like to be set up". They built several models. The Saxon Elector Christian I commissioned Nosseni with the completion of the burial chapel. At the beginning of September 1588, Nosseni went to Italy in order to “bring artificial sculptors, sculptors and stonemasons to the monument in Freiberg”. He also visited his parents in Lugano. On October 23, he arrived in Florence, where he recruited Carlo de Cesare, who later cast the bronze statues in Freiberg. On the way back via Modena, he acquired 180 painted and gilded shields (roundels) for the stable building and 600 crystal glasses from Murano in Venice for the Dresden court. He arrived in Dresden on December 31st. From 1590 the Belvedere was built on the Brühl Terrace in Dresden according to Nosseni's plans .

In 1590 he was granted a 20-year privilege to mine and use marble, alabaster, serpentine , jasper , crystal and amethyst , which was extended to him for life in 1609. In Dresden, Nosseni lived, among other things, in what would later become the Fürstenbergschen house on Augustusstrasse .

At the end of May 1589, Buchner, Nosseni and Christoph Kohlreuter visited the cathedral choir in Freiberg. After Christian I's death on September 25, 1591, the administrator Friedrich Wilhelm I (Sachsen-Weimar) restricted work on the tomb and laid off workers.

In 1607, Count Ernst von Holstein-Schaumburg began planning his mausoleum in Stadthagen and commissioned Nosseni with the design. However, construction did not begin until Nosseni's death year and was carried out by his student Anton Boten .

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SURNAME Nosseni, Giovanni Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nosseni, Johann Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1620
Place of death Dresden