Bartolomeo Bosco

Bartolomeo Bosco ( born January 3, 1793 in Turin, † March 7, 1863 in Gruna, Dresden ) was an Italian magician who last lived in Dresden. He is regarded as one of the first members of a "honest magic" that took place towards the beginning of the 19th century in the art of magic moving away from mystification and superstition to the art of entertainment.

Life

Giovanni Bartolomeo was the son of Matteo Bosco and Bosco Celilia, born Cerore. About his childhood Nothing further is known. In 1812 he hired himself claims to the Napoleonic campaign in Russia, was wounded at Borodino and was taken prisoner. In the near Tobolsk he was exiled to a Siberian camp before he was released in 1814 by prisoners of war exchange again. He returned to Italy to study medicine, but the love of magic was stronger.

Bosco was buried in his adopted hometown of Dresden on the Old Catholic Cemetery. His -forgotten grave with the magnificent stone grave was visited in 1903 by the magician Harry Houdini. It noted that that the rent was almost up, and it should be closed down. He bought the grave along with grave stone and left it to his magic Association, the Society of American Magicians. Since that time the grave is maintained, now of generations " Dresdner Magician". In his honor carries the Dresden magic clubs of the Magic Circle of Germany ( the organization of the magician ), the name Magic Circle Dresden Bartolomeo Bosco eV

Bosco has a place in the Hall of Fame of the Society of American Magicians today.

Art and effect

Within a short time Bosco became a famous magician in the whole of Europe, and this " was a brilliant master of publicity " not only because of his dexterity, but because he, like Michael Seldow to saw in the art of women writes. Bosco's name is forever linked with the famous cup game where little nutmeg beads in an amazing way because invisible, from a mug back and forth to another hike - a sleight of hand, as they can be seen everywhere in the world today in the form of the shell game gets if wanted with the subtle difference that those are clearly from fraud, Bosco, however, his audience was mistaken only for his pleasure and entertained by it. He stepped in front of the common people in booths, in squares and streets as well as on in theaters and on stages in front of an upscale audience at court and before the princes, kings and emperors.

So Bosco showed his skills at the courts following crowned heads:

1852 could be in, L' Illustration, ' Journal Universel read that there was only one, " he could not make it disappear. 's Tremendous success," He inspired the French fashion and cultural world, one wore boots and skirts à la Bosco and even a dance named after him.

Quotes about Bosco

"He already succeeded at that time, what was unusual at that time: the theater of the great cities from Berlin to Vienna, from Petersburg to Paris opened to him their platforms. "

" ... Tricks alone do not make a magician, this includes more: Character, feeling for people, poetic wordplay as a creative genius, a bag full impromptu talent and a spark of self-irony - in short, presence of mind, not cheap repartee. Bosco has all this combined in his amiable nature - how else he could have become one of the most famous artists of his time and a pioneer of modern magic at all "