Johann Caspar de Gabrieli

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Johann Caspar de Gabrieli (also: Gaspare de Gabrieli ) (* 1685 in Roveredo GR ; † 3. August 1713 in Unterschwaningen ) was a plasterer of the Baroque .

Life

The parents were the master mason Giovanni Gabrieli (* 1666; † 1716) in Roveredo in Misox in Graubünden and his wife Domenica born. Zuccalli. He was a younger brother of the Ansbach (and from 1714 Eichstättisch-Prince-Bishop) court building director Gabriel de Gabrieli , who promoted the young plasterer. Johann Caspar's last work, stucco work in the old castle Schwaningen , he could no longer complete because he died there at the age of 28 of the "Hungarian disease" ( typhus ). He was buried on August 5, 1713 in Eichstätt's Großlellenfeld .

Works

  • Gräflich Seckendorff-Aberdar'sches Blaues Schloss Obernzenn (1712/13 ceiling stucco on the main floor according to own designs)
  • Thalmässing , Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Michael (1712/13; stucco marble altar)
  • Schwaningen Castle (1712/13; Castle 1811 sold for demolition and demolished)

literature

  • Theodor Neuhofer: Contributions to the art history of Bavaria. In: Collection sheet of the Historical Association Eichstätt. 62, 1967/1968, pp. 79f.
  • Rembrant Fiedler: On the work of the builder Gabriel de Gabrieli in Vienna and Ansbach. Mittelfränkische Studien, Volume 10. Bamberg 1993, especially pp. 220-224, 246.
  • Max Pfister: Master builder from Graubünden - pioneer of the baroque. Bündnermonthsblatt, Chur 1993, p. 245.
personal data
SURNAME Gabrieli, Johann Caspar de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gabrieli, Gaspare de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baroque plasterer
DATE OF BIRTH 1685
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1713
Place of death Unterschwaningen