Johann Caspar Bagnato

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Portrait epitaph, Mainau Castle Church

Johann Caspar Bagnato , also Giovanni Gaspare Bagnato (born September 13, 1696 in Landau in the Palatinate ; † June 15, 1757 on the Bodensee island Mainau ), from Ravensburg. was a builder of the baroque in southwest Germany.

biography

Johann Caspar Bagnato was building director of the Deutschordensballei Swabia-Alsace-Burgundy . Bagnato's father Paul (Paolo) Bagnato came from Peccia in Ticino , his mother Anna Maria Stickelmeyer from Germany. The family initially lived in Landau, but left the city around 1700 and lived in Speyer , where the father was killed in an accident in 1704 when he fell from a scaffold. He was also a builder and had built the Trinity Church there. Mother and children stayed in Speyer; she died here in 1735.

From 1725 Johann Caspar Bagnato lived in Mergentheim , from 1727 in Ravensburg . Here in 1729, on the occasion of his second marriage to the bourgeois daughter Maria Anna Walser, he was referred to as the “Master Builder of the Teutonic Order in Altshausen ” . That year he began to redesign Altshausen Castle . However, only a small part of his plans were implemented. He remained employed by the Teutonic Order throughout his life and built numerous churches and religious buildings on his behalf. He also worked for other - mostly church - builders.

In 1756 he married a third time after the death of the second wife. The wife's name was Maria Rosa Buol from Obernheim , where he had recently built the parish church and was the niece of the pastor there. In old age, Bagnato suffered from gout, died on an inspection trip on the island of Mainau and is buried in the castle church there, where his bronze epitaph is also located on the inner west wall.

Johann Caspar Bagnato's son Franz (Ignaz) Anton Bagnato (1731–1810) was also a master builder.

Works

Provost office in Klingnau
Entrance portal of the baroque extension of Schloss Beuggen designed by Johann Caspar Bagnato
Gate building of Altshausen Castle
Mainau Castle
Façade of the Verena Minster in Zurzach
Parish church of St. Pankratius in Hitzkirch

literature

  • Joseph Ludolf Wohleb : The life's work of the Teutonic order builders Johann Kaspar Bagnato and Franz Anton Bagnato. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 11, 1952, pp. 207–224.
  • Hans Martin Gubler: Johann Caspar Bagnato (1696–1757) and the construction of the Teutonic Order in the Alsace-Burgundy Ballei in the 18th century. A baroque architect in the field of tension between client, building organization and artistic standards. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1985, ISBN 3-7995-7031-4 .
  • Adolf Reinle : Johann Caspar Bagnato. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 22, 2015 , accessed March 1, 2020 .
  • Christof Wolff, Rudolf Fendler: Johann Caspar Bagnato (1696–1757), the baroque master builder from Landau. Knecht, Landau 1996, ISBN 3-930927-17-9 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Caspar Bagnato  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Reinle: Bagnato, Johann Caspar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Christiane Brodersen, Thomas Klenner, Lenelotte Möller: Walkable picture Bible: the gallery pictures of the Trinity Church in Speyer , BoD - Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 3939526150 , p. 9; (Digital view)
  3. ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997, p. 322.
personal data
SURNAME Bagnato, Johann Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bagnato, Giovanni Gaspare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder of the baroque age
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1757
Place of death Mainau island in Lake Constance