Domenico Quaglio the Younger
Johann Dominicus Quaglio ( born January 1, 1787 Munich, † April 9, 1837 in the castle of Hohenschwangau near Füssen ), called Domenico Quaglio [ II ], was one of the most important architectural painter of German romanticism, theater painter, lithographer and etcher.
Origin and family
Quaglio was born as one of eleven children of the painter and architect Giuseppe Quaglio. His brother is the landscape and genre painter Lorenzo Quaglio, who became known as a portrayer of the Upper Bavarian farmers. The widely ramified family of artists Quaglio whose most important representative Domenico Quaglio was originally came from Laino on Lake Lugano in the Ticino and had moved with Elector Karl Theodor of Mannheim to Munich. On 28 January 1819 he married Josepha Sedlmayr, their marriage has emerged four daughters and three sons. The eldest daughter married Josepha 1834 animal painter Benno Adam. The second daughter Agnes (1821-1854), married name Prof. Josef Benedikt Buchner, he made himself out to the landscape and figure painter in Munich.
Life and work
Domenico Quaglio was initially trained by his father, Giuseppe, and then at the Munich Art Academy under Carl Ernst Christoph Hess and Johann Michael Mette ladder to the engraver and lithographer. With his fellow Peter von Hess and Ludwig Emil Grimm, he remained friends over the study period also. Since 1803 he was a decorative painter at the court theater in Munich and from 1808 to 1814 specifically court theater painter of architectural scenes, as he also designed the stage decor.
Domenico Quaglio is the founder of the Munich architectural image and the leading exponent of the Romantic view painting. Extensive travels he undertook by Germany, on the Rhine, to the Netherlands, France, Italy and Switzerland, of which he brought with him extensive graphic images of medieval churches, palaces, castles, ruins, town halls, etc.. As one of the first he used the new technique of lithography and he drew their artistic means from to reproduce medieval buildings in prints. Its leaves are allocated to the most important incunabula of lithography. After 1819 he devoted himself particularly to oil painting.
His special love was, his romantic disposition accordingly, the buildings of the Gothic. The most important Gothic cathedrals has held in facts in its state of the painter: Regensburger Dom, Cologne Cathedral, Frankfurt Cathedral, Strasbourg Cathedral, Freiburg Münster, Ulm Münster Cathedral, Reims, Rouen Cathedral, Cathedral of Orvieto, etc. In addition, he created a number of views other Gothic buildings and medieval towns. An important consequence of paintings on buildings, plazas and streets of Munich before the profound transformation by King Ludwig I and what was the king himself in order.
Quaglio raised the architecture painting to create artistic importance. He painted free not artistic, but with the realism of the vista, which is why his paintings are in many cases also building history documents. But although his paintings have always documentary character, the sceneries like the vistas Canaletto both by the choice of image detail as well as through varied play of light and shadow, as well as graceful and moving (even costume historically interesting ) Figurenstaffage are revived. Occasionally, Domenico Quaglio is therefore also known as Canaletto of the North. He was appointed court painter bayerischern and later added as a member of the Academies of Munich and Berlin. Together with Peter von Hess, Friedrich von Gärtner and Joseph Karl Stieler he founded in 1823 the Munich Kunstverein, the first in Germany.
Crown Prince Maximilian commissioned Quaglio 1832 with the reconstruction and decoration of Schloss Hohenschwangau. After his designs the medieval castle was rebuilt by the year 1837 to a picturesque castle in the Neo-Gothic style. Significantly, the king had forgiven the overall management of the construction of Quaglio and the architect Friedrich Ziebland only attached to him. The work took him at this time nearly all alone in claim and no experience in managing a fairly large building also broke Domenico Quaglio nearing completion of the castle on the site together and died shortly afterwards at the age of 50 years. The envisaged by Quaglio decoration of the rooms got after his death Moritz von Schwind.
His grave is located in the old cemetery of St. Sebastian in Fussen, the grave stone is still extant, with the lines: " This monument dedicated to his memory the Crown Prince of Bavaria".
Gallery
The Marienburg in East Prussia - steel engraving, 1834
The Royal Residence in Munich from the northeast in 1827
Munich: The residence road against the Max -Joseph-Platz in 1826
Braunschweig: " Old Market of East" from the year 1834.
View of Frankfurt / M ( 1831)
Works ( literature)
Domenico Quaglio was some view portfolios of his stitches out:
- Collection of strange buildings of the Middle Ages in Germany. Velten, Karlsruhe 1810 ( 2 vols )
- Views remarkable building in Munich. Hirmer, München 1811 ( 2 vols )
- Monuments of architecture of the Middle Ages in Bavaria. Hirmer, München 1816