Tommaso Giusti

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Tommaso Giusti (* around 1644 in Venice ; † September 24, 1729 in Hanover ) was an Italian architect , court and stage decoration painter and theater engineer . He is one of the group of artists who immigrated to today's Lower Saxony after the Thirty Years' War in the European age of absolutism and who largely contributed to the formation of the Baroque style . While little is known about Guisti's youth, recent research suggests that Giusti later “probably worked as an architect more often than previously assumed”.

Life

Tommaso Giusti was the student of his father, a Venetian construction manager who worked under A. Cominelli and the builder Baldassare Longhena . The young Tommaso also “probably” went through an apprenticeship with Longhena - two Italian church buildings in Parma and Reggio , which Guisti later claimed for themselves , have not yet been scientifically verified (as of 2009).

"Probably through the mediation of Agostino Steffani ", the apostolic vicar of Upper and Lower Saxony, at the same time Hanoverian court music director and Venetian compatriot Giustis, Tommaso Giusti was appointed as a stage decoration painter in the royal seat of Hanover on February 9, 1689 . In the same year Giusti began working on the palace opera house, which was “probably designed by Johann Peter Wachter ” and is currently under construction, with its decorative design and the construction of theater machines.

After the Principality / Duchy of Calenberg was elevated to the status of Electorate of Hanover in 1692, Giusti was appointed court painter with a fixed salary in 1693. He was also in contact with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , "for whom he made celestial globes in the year of his trip to Venice (1694) ".

Stucco work on the ceiling of the gallery building, here in 2012 during an event organized by the Volkswagen Foundation with Dennis Meadows
The new building from 1947 to 1957 by St. Clemens in Hanover, now with a domed roof

In 1696/98 Giusti designed the stucco work for the gallery building in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen , which was then carried out by Pietro Rosso and Dossa Grana . Guisti painted the building with frescoes , among which the Aeneas cycle stands out in the central hall. Giusti was “possibly” involved in the construction of the gallery building himself.

Tommasio Giusti was still “probably” working “around 1700” with the decoration of the von Platen castle in the Von Alten Garden ; erected the funeral scaffolding for the deceased Countess E. von Platen in 1700 . In the same year Giusti worked in Berlin , where he built the theater - which no longer exists today - on the stable and provided it with mechanical equipment.

Around 1707 Giusti designed the fresco cycle and the theater decoration for the Göhrde hunting lodge built by Louis Remy de la Fosse .

Again in Hannover took Guisti 1711 the contract for the construction management of the Catholic provost Church of St. Clement on, delivered in 1713 (in the Historical Museum Hannover preserved) building model from 1714 and the final execution tore along the lines of the then-known Venetian cross-in-square . However, the Clemenskirche remained without a dome due to a lack of sufficient funds .

Tommaso Giusti remained single and died in Hanover in 1729. He was buried in the crypt of the Clement Church which he built.

Famous works

  • 1694–1698: frescoes in the gallery building in Hanover-Herrenhausen; receive
  • 1698–1702: Presumably the entire decoration in the castle of those of Platen (later that of Alten ) in Linden ; destroyed during the air raids on Hanover in 1943
  • from 1699: Decoration and machinery in the opera house in the Leineschloss ; not received
  • 1700: Construction of the theater on Stallplatz in Berlin, not preserved
  • 1707: A cycle of frescoes from the Göhrde hunting lodge near Dannenberg, which was demolished in 1826
  • 1707: Design of two garden cabinets in the Great Garden in Herrenhausen
  • 1711–1718: Construction of the St. Clemens Church in Hanover, which was destroyed in the Second World War,
    • to Guistis Baumodel received from 1713 in the Historical Museum Hannover from and in a modified form 1947 to 1957 by Otto Fiederling was rebuilt

See also

Literature (selection)

Web links

Commons : Tommaso Giusti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Hans Reuther: Giusti, Tommaso. In: New German Biography . Volume 6, pp. 420-421.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Helmut Knocke: Giusti, Tommaso In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen (ed.): Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 131 .
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Giusti, Tommaso. In: Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein with Dirk Böttcher and Hugo Thielen ; editorial assistance: Peter Schulze (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover . From the beginning to the present. First edition edition. Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 222 f .
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Capital (function). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 274.
personal data
SURNAME Giusti, Tommaso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Venetian architect, stage painter and theater engineer, who worked particularly in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH around 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1729
Place of death Hanover