Kaspar Zuccalli (architect)

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Kaspar Zuccalli (* around 1629 in Roveredo , Graubünden , † April 15, 1678 in Munich ), also Giovanni Gaspare Zuccalli like a later member of the family , was a Swiss architect and builder of the Baroque .

He came to Munich at the age of 19 and worked with his cousin Domenico Christophorus Zuccalli in the Innviertel since the sixties of the 17th century . In 1668 he was appointed as the electoral court mason in Munich. Kaspar Zuccalli also trained his brother-in-law Enrico Zuccalli and enabled him to come to Munich in 1669. In the following years he worked with him on several projects.

Works

The plan for the baroque reconstruction of the Catholic parish church of the Assumption in Schnaitsee is also attributed to him (execution 1664–67)

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