Giuseppe Quaglio
Illustration — Temple of Zeus, watercolor Giuseppe Quaglio (2 December 1747 – 23 January 1828) was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg. Giuseppe's sons include the scene designer Simon (1795–1878), active mainly in Munich, and Angelo Quaglio the Elder (1784–1815), an architect and painter. He designed and painted landscapes and architectural pictures for Boisserée's work on Cologne Cathedral, Domenico (1787–1837), a landscape and architectural painter, scene painter, engraver, and architect, was born in Munich and died in Hohenschwangau; and Lorenzo (1793–1869), a genre painter and lithographer.
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Giuseppe Quaglio
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- 1747 · Laino.
- Nationality
- Duchy of Milan
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- architect · painter · scenographer
- Teachers
- Domenico Quaglio · Lorenzo Quaglio
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Temple of Zeus, watercolor Giuseppe Quaglio (2 December 1747 – 23 January 1828) was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg. Giuseppe's sons include the scene designer Simon (1795–1878), active mainly in Munich, and Angelo Quaglio the Elder (1784–1815), an architect and painter. He designed and painted landscapes and architectural pictures for Boisserée's work on Cologne Cathedral, Domenico (1787–1837), a landscape and architectural painter, scene painter, engraver, and architect, was born in Munich and died in Hohenschwangau; and Lorenzo (1793–1869), a genre painter and lithographer.
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Born at Laino in 1747, died in Munich in 1828.
Training under Domenico Quaglio and Lorenzo Quaglio is recorded. The recorded working language is German.
Giuseppe Quaglio, A Turkish Palace (Probably for Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio"), 1790s
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Der Mannheimer Theaterplatz bei Mondschein. Um 1790. Aquarell über Federzeichnung, mit Gouache weiß gehöht. Links unten signiert. Auf Bütten. Mit schwarzem Tuschrand eingefasst. 11,8 x 16,9 cm
Giuseppe Quaglio
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1747
Giuseppe Quaglio was born in 1747 at Laino.
1828
Giuseppe Quaglio died in 1828 at Munich.
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Michael. Bryan. Michael Bryan. Williamson. George Charles. G. C. Williamson. Quaglio, Giuseppe. Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers. 1904. 170.
- James Anderson. The Complete Dictionary of Opera and Operetta.
- Quaglio, Giuseppe. Dictionary of german biography. 2005. 104.
- Quaglio, Giuseppe. Große Bayerische Biographische Enzyklopädie. 2005.
- Werner Ebnet. Quaglio, Giuseppe. Sie haben in München gelebt : Biografien aus acht Jahrhunderten. 2016. 470.
- Emmanuel Bénézit. Quaglio, Giuseppe or Joseph. Bénézit.
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