Maurizio Pedetti

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Maurizio Pedetti (born October 13, 1719 in Casasco d'Intelvi ( Province of Como ), † March 14, 1799 in Eichstätt ) was an Italian architect of the late Baroque in Germany.

Live and act

Maurizio Pedetti's parents were the marble stonemason Francesco Giuliano Pedetti and Giovanna Ceterina nee. Retti. Pedetti's maternal grandfather was the architect Lorenzo Retti ; from him he learned to draw, which he soon mastered. In 1722 the family moved to Mannheim. Pedetti learned the art of architecture in Ludwigsburg , where he worked together with his cousin Donato Giuseppe Frisoni in the construction of the palace in 1731 , in Ansbach , where he was a draftsman in the court building office from 1735 and helped design the Margrave Palace and the Gumbertus Church, in 1738 in Munich, 1741 at the Prince-Bishop of Speyer , then at the courts of Bruchsal (1742) and Mannheim .

In between, from 1739 to 1741, he traveled to Italy and studied with Giovanni Baptiste Nolli . In 1743 he was in military service and took part in the War of the Austrian Succession . From 1745 he was at the court of King Christian VI. from Denmark and finally at the court of Prince Radziwiłł in Poland .

On April 12, 1750, he successfully applied for the post of court building director and court chamber councilor in Eichstätt, which he held under four prince-bishops until his death. In 1752 he married Maria Anna Walburga Hortis from Herrieden and had three children with her, only one daughter of whom survived.

When Pedetti took up his duties in Eichstätt, all of the important buildings had been restored by his predecessors, particularly Jakob Engel and Gabriel de Gabrieli , after the destruction by the Swedes in 1634 . Although he planned various new buildings and conversions, only a few of them were implemented. In the first years of his activity in Eichstätt, his activity was limited to repairing structural damage to buildings in the entire Hochstift. He had to make repairs to Eichstätter Cathedral and Willibaldsburg, among others .

When Raymund Anton Graf von Strasoldo became Prince-Bishop in 1757 , a new building period began in the bishopric, a late Baroque heyday that significantly improved Pedetti's order book. He was allowed to build a representative prince-bishop's hunting lodge on the Hirschberg near Beilngries . From 1760 to 1765, as an architect, he redesigned the previous buildings into a symmetrical rococo complex with a deep courtyard and a “Fürstenstrasse”. Later on, he repeatedly took up the connection between architecture and nature typical of the late Baroque.

In Eichstätt himself, he expanded the orphanage in the east of the city, with the construction work being in the hands of the cathedral chapter builder Giovanni Domenico Barbieri . In 1767/68 he built a representative staircase with a passage through the courtyard and a ballroom on the second floor - the “Hall of Mirrors” - in the episcopal residence (today the District Office).

Historic building projects

Pedetti's drawing of the Marian Column, inaugurated in 1777 on Eichstätter Residenzplatz

As urban feat Pedettis the design of the residence place 1776-1780 applies to the almost 24-meter high Mariensäule with large and small fountain and the pflasterstrahligen square parquet floor and a curved Linde Half Rondell as a conclusion to the east. At the summer residence he redesigned the courtyard garden with the redesign of the south front with its pavilions according to the changed taste of the Rococo .

He could use his talent for drawing when he in 1758 together with the painter Michael Franz the Bishopric calendar redesigned the chapter. City views of Eichstätt, Herrieden, Berching and Greding have also come down to us.

At the turn of classicism , Pedetti built the central projectile on the south side of the residence in 1791 ; the sentry boxes also go back to this time. In the style of classicism, he redesigned the first floor of the residence with the episcopal apartments under the last Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, Josef Graf von Stubenberg . Pedetti's plans in 1792 to redesign the Pfünz Palace in a classical style were not carried out. In total, Pedetti produced drafts for seven palace complexes and ideal plans for six palaces and residences.

In the Hochstift under Pedetti, who worked under four prince-bishops, numerous new buildings for forest houses and schoolhouses, parsonages, council and box houses, churches and chapels were built. Some works should be mentioned:

An application for the post of cathedral chapter builder to succeed Giovanni Domenico Barbieri in 1765 was unsuccessful. Pedetti went down in history as the last court architect of the Prince Diocese of Eichstätt at the turn from Rococo to Classicism; four years after his death, secularization marked the end of the secular rule of the prince-bishops. His tomb, probably designed by himself in the classicism style, has been preserved on the outer wall of the “Maria Schnee” chapel in Eichstätter's east cemetery. A portrait of him has not survived.

literature

Tomb of Maurizio (here: Moritz) Pedetti in Eichstätter's east cemetery

Essays

  • Collective sheet of the Historisches Verein Eichstätt 70 (1977), pp. 22f., 75 (1982), pp. 179 ff., 94 (2001), pp. 37-50.
  • Winfried Nerdinger (Ed.): Classicism in Bavaria, Swabia and Franconia. Architectural drawings 1775 to 1825 . Beck, Munich 1980, pp. 361–372 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name).
  • Edmund Endl: Mauritio Pedetti - the last court architect . In: Vereinigung der Freude des Willibald-Gymnasium (ed.): Weihnachtsschrift 1999 , Eichstätt 1999, pp. 3–37.
  • Michael Bringmann:  Mauritio Pedetti. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 157 ( digitized version ).
  • Alexander Rauch : Eichstätts princely legacy: on the restoration and history of the Residenzplatz. in: Festschrift for the restoration of the Residenzplatz in Eichstätt. Ed. Landbauamt Eichstätt, 1985, pages 42-63.
  • Alexander Rauch: The Hochfürstlich-Eichstädtische Residenzplatz against the rise, remarks on the reality character of a late Baroque engraved vedute. in: Bruckmanns Pantheon , Internationale Jahresschrift für Kunst, Vol. IV, 1983, pages 335–345.
  • Rūstis Kamuntavičius et al .: Artisti del lago di Lugano e del Mendrisiotto in Lituania , in Gli artisti del lago di Lugano e del Mendrisiotto nel Granducato di Lituania (from XVI to XVIII sec.) , Ed. Giorgio Mollisi, "Arte & Storia", Edizioni Ticino Management, anno 13, number 59, agosto-ottobre 2013, Lugano 2013.

Non-fiction

  • Felix Mader among others: City of Eichstätt (The art monuments of Middle Franconia; 1). Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-486-50504-1 (reprint of the Munich edition 1924).
  • Petra Noll: Mauritio Pedetti, the last court building director of the Eichstätt Monastery (1719–1799). Life and work in the transition from late baroque to early classicism (Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia; 127). Uni-Druck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-87821-197-X (also dissertation, University of Munich 1983).

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SURNAME Pedetti, Maurizio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pedetti, Mauritio; Pedetti, Moritz; Pedetti, Moriz; Pedetti, Pietro Giuseppe Mauritio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect, active v. a. in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Casasco d'Intelvi
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1799
Place of death Eichstatt