Domenico Pozzi

Domenico Pozzi ( born August 3, 1745 in Bruzella; † November 2, 1796 in Riva San Vitale ) was a historical and portrait painter and one of the derived from the Tessin family of artists Pozzi.

Life and work

Domenico Pozzi painted as a child pictures. The story after he had found by chance brush and paint and the family friend of the family already painted very talented, so that the Father Francesco Pozzi not let him as a plasterer as his older brothers Giuseppe Antonio and Carlo Luca Pozzi educate, but to a painter.

Domenico Pozzi was formed first at the fresco painter Giuseppe Appiani in Milan to school and then went to the Art Academy. Later he went to Parma, received, at the age of 21 the " big prize of painting ". He moved to Rome, where he stayed for two years resident. There he gained through his picture "The Transfiguration of Christ" the second prize.

Finally, he went on an extended trip to Como, Milan and Mannheim. In Mannheim he adorned with his brother Giuseppe, the ceiling of the library of the Count Castelli. Finally, he painted the three roundels "faith", "love" and "hope" on the vault of the central nave of St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn. Further work were two images of Christ's suffering for the Crucifixion chapel in Castel San Pietro. An image showing the crowning with thorns and the other the scourging of Jesus. In Genoa, he participated in the painting of the newly built Palazzo Municipale Ratsaals.

Domenico Pozzi was friends with the art historian Johann Caspar Füssli, and gave him many details of his work "History of the best artists in the Schweitz ". Was married Domenico Pozzi with Maria Antonia Vassalli from Riva S. Vitale and died in 1796.