Simon Quaglio

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Grave of Simon Quaglio in the old southern cemetery in Munich location (photo 2014)

Simon Quaglio (born October 23, 1795 in Munich ; † March 8, 1878 ibid) was a German painter and graphic artist . He worked as a stage painter , set designer , landscape painter and lithographer . He came from the Quaglio family of artists .

Life

Simon Quaglio, son of Giuseppe Quaglio , was a student of his father and brother Michel Angelo and in 1814 became a court theater painter in Munich. In the early years he worked closely with his father and after his death (1828) took over the management of the decoration business. Simon Quaglio taught Wilhelm Meyer as a theater decoration painter in Munich in 1832.

Since 1839 Quaglio was the first in Germany to use both painted and built decorations. In 1840 he traveled to Paris to study and brought the three-walled closed stage room with him to improve the stage technology. Quaglio created around 100 overall designs, including the stage sets for the Magic Flute (1818), Tannhäuser (1855) and Lohengrin (1858). He also worked as a landscape and architecture painter and draftsman .

He was the father of Angelo Quaglio II and Julius Quaglio and the brother of Domenico Quaglio

The tomb of the family of painters Quaglio is on the old southern cemetery in Munich (burial ground 9 - Row 5 - Place 40/41) Location .

literature

Web links

Commons : Simon Quaglio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tapan Bhattacharya: Wilhelm Meyer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 23, 2007 .
  2. ↑ Simon Quaglio in deutsche-biographie.de (accessed on: April 7, 2016.)
  3. ↑ Ursula Stevens: Simon Quaglio il Giovane. In: tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch. 2016, accessed November 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Quaglio, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1878
Place of death Munich