|
(1) Giuseppe [Joseph] Quaglio
(b Laino, 2 Dec 1747; d Munich, 23 Jan 1828). Stage designer and painter. He started off as a pupil of his father, then studied architecture and stage design in Vienna and made several study trips through Germany and Italy. Presumably at the instigation of his cousin Lorenzo, the first Quaglio to be engaged by the Elector of the Palatinate as court theatre architect, Giuseppe was summoned to Mannheim (1771) as a stage designer. When the interior furnishings of the new Mannheim playhouse, built by Lorenzo from 1775, and of the famous Redoutensaal in the Schloss at Mannheim were undertaken, Giuseppe painted various perspective frescoes for them. He also worked on occasion for the theatres at Ludwigsburg, Speyer and Frankfurt am Main. He produced the stage sets both for the opening production at the new Mannheim court playhouse in 1777 and for Schiller’s Die Räuber, which had its first performance there in 1782.
Part of the Quaglio family
|
|
There are more than 45,000 articles in The Grove Dictionary of Art.
To access the rest of this article, including the bibliography, subscribe to
www.groveart.com.
To find out more about this subject, click on a related article below and
subscribe to www.groveart.com
|
