Jacob Faber (builder)

Jacob Faber (also Jacopo Fabris ; * around 1690 in Venice ; † December 17 or 18, 1761 in Copenhagen ) was a German builder and theater painter .

He was the son of German parents living in Italy. From 1719 he was court painter in Karlsruhe and later a decorative painter at the Hamburg theater. In Berlin he designed the stage technology and decorations for the Royal Opera as an employee of Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff . In 1742 he went to Copenhagen. His work on theater construction and decorations appeared there in 1760 under the name Jacopo Fabris: Instruction in the theatrical architecture and mechanique .

literature

Uwe Kieling: Berlin. Builders and Buildings. From Gothic to Historicism . Tourist Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-350-00280-3 , p. 173 .

Individual evidence

^ Jacopo Fabris: Instruction in teatral architecture and mechanics . Ed .: Torben Krogh. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1930 ( cover in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Faber, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fabris, Jacopo; Fabris, Giacomo; Fabris, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German builder and theater painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 1761 or December 18, 1761
Place of death	Copenhagen

[1] Jacopo Fabris: Instruction in teatral architecture and mechanics . Ed .: Torben Krogh. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1930 ( cover in Google book search).