Jacopo Appiani

Waldsassen monastery library, with stucco work by Jacopo Appiani

Jacopo Appiani (also Jacob or Giacomo Appiani , * 22. June 1687 in Porto Ceresio , † 24 June 1742 ) was an Italian plasterer of rococo .

Life

He was a son of the mason Joseffe (Giuseppe) Appiani (1644; † before 1721) from Porto Ceresio and younger brother of the plasterer Pietro Francesco Appiani (1670-1724), father of the painter Giuseppe Appiani . He was married to Marianna Vianni, whom he married on February 10, 1721 in Porto Ceresio. He initially worked in the workshop of Pietro Francesco Appiani in Munich. From 1712 to 1716 he represented his brother there while he was in France and took over the business after his death in 1724. He later began to work with Franz Beer and Michael Beer von Bleichten and to expand the workshop's sphere of activity to include Switzerland. From the second half of the 1720s, his work exhibits Régence style elements. He died in 1742 in his hometown Porto Ceresio.

Works (selection)

• Filial church St. Sebastian in Puch
• Waldsassen Monastery (1724–1726), library and altars in the basilica.
• Fürstenfeld Monastery (1729–1730), nave of the monastery church.
• Rheinau Monastery (1729), abbot epitaph in the monastery church, stucco ceiling of the library in the new convent, stucco ceiling of the ballroom in the abbey building.
• Zurich, Stockargut (approx. 1732/1733.)
• Herrliberg , Landhaus Schipf.

literature

• Hans Vollmer: Appiani, Jakob . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Wilhelm Weidinger: The Appiani brothers. In: ders .: Baroque master builders and stucco builders from the southern Alps in the Upper Palatinate. In: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. (VHVO), No. 147 (2007), p. 273 ff. (Wilhelm Weidinger:  Baroque master builders and stucco workers from the Southern Alps in the Upper Palatinate . Entry in the database of the Upper Palatinate Cultural Association (currently not available) ).
• Josef Heinzelmann : Appiani, Giacomo (Jacob) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 4, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-598-22744-2 , p. 561 f.

Web links

• Biography and list of works

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Heinzelmann : Appiani, Giacomo (Jacob) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 4, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-598-22744-2 , p. 561 f.
2. ↑ Former Benedictine monastery. ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 86 kB) Object description from the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, at the Federal Office for Civil Protection, Department of Cultural Property Protection, accessed on August 22, 2013. 
3. ↑ Landhaus Schipf. ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 51 kB) Object description by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, at the Federal Office for Civil Protection, Department of Cultural Property Protection, accessed on 23 August 2013.