Stefano Torelli
Stefano Torelli (* 1712 in Bologna , † 1784 in Saint Petersburg ) was a painter from the Italian artist family Torelli who worked in Germany and especially in Russia .
Life
He received his training from his father Felice Torelli , his mother Lucia Casalini , who also paints, and from Francesco Solimena in Naples . In 1740 he was brought to Bayreuth by Wilhelmine von Bayreuth to redesign the Old Palace in the Hermitage . Here he created an allegorical ceiling painting of Chilonis and Cleombrotros for the audience room. A little later he moved on to Saxony, where more works for King August III. Poland and Saxony in the Catholic Court Church (altar Sermon of Saint Benno in Benno Chapel in 1752 and painting of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel 1755) and in the castle Nischwitz find. He also painted rooms in the Dresden Zwinger . He also created the ceiling painting in the marble hall of Martinskirchen Castle and the paintings in Altdöbern Castle .
Torelli lost his job opportunities in Saxony due to the Seven Years' War . He went north with his assistant and student Francesco Gandini (1722–1778), where he decorated the audience hall in Lübeck's town hall in 1761 with ten allegorical paintings. Also in Lübeck he married his daughter Camilla to the city commander Count von Chasôt .
After the separate Prussian-Russian peace , Torelli went to Russia in 1762 , where he became professor at the Art Academy in St. Petersburg and preferred court painter to Empress Catherine II . He was best known for his numerous portraits of personalities of the Russian nobility.
Works (selection)
- Anna Alexejewna Chernysheva, Hermitage , St. Petersburg
- Tsarina Catherine II , Russian Museum , St. Petersburg
- Coronation of Catherine II, Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
- Portrait of Count Chasot, St. Anne's Museum, Lübeck
- Portraits of Count Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann and Caroline Tugendreich Countess von Schimmelmann, b. Friedeborn (ca.1762), Reventlow Museum , Pederstrup, Horslunde on Lolland , Denmark
- Portraits of the merchant Hieronymus Küsel, builder of the Bellevue Palace in Lübeck, and his wife, St.-Annen Museum Lübeck
literature
- Claudia Montz: The cycle of paintings by Stefano Torelli in the audience hall of the Lübeck town hall. 2 volumes, Kiel, University, MA 1992
- Roswitha Siewert: Pictures of a happy Lübeck - Stefan Torelli's masterpieces of the Italian Rococo in the newly restored audience hall of the Lübeck town hall in Lübeckische Blätter 2006, pp. 133-139.
- Thomas Liebsch: Stefano Torelli, court painter in Dresden. His work in Saxony, Bayreuth, Lübeck and Saint Petersburg. Berlin 2007 ISBN 978-3-86624-210-4 Summary
Individual evidence
- ↑ James Schumann also mentions the painter Torelli: "The beautiful rooms of the Zwinger were originally intended for playrooms and dining rooms, in which there are ceiling paintings by Sylvester, Torelli, Fehling and Pellegrini." James Schumann (ed.), Dresden under the government of Koenig Anton Clemens I , Dresden 1829, p. 105
- ^ Otto Eduard Schmidt : Electoral Saxon forays. Volume 2: Hikes in Lower Lusatia, Leipzig: Otto Spamer 1904, p. 35
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefano Torelli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Stefano Torelli in the German Digital Library
- Search for Stefano Torelli in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Ceiling painting in Bayreuth
- Dresden lost churches, chapels Taschenbergpalais p. 17
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Torelli, Stefano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1712 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bologna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1784 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |