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(3) Domenico Quaglio II
(b Munich, 1 Jan 1787; d Hohenschwangau, nr Füssen, 9 April 1837). Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, son of (1) Giuseppe Quaglio. He studied first under his father and then with Johann Michael Mettenleiter (1765–1853) and Carl Ernst Christoph Hess (1755–1828). From 1803 he painted scenery for architectural stage sets at the Hoftheater in Munich and in 1819 he finally turned to drawing and painting architecture and landscapes (e.g. Phantasiearchitektur, 1819; Munich, Staatl. Graph. Samml.). In 1823 he founded the Munich Kunstverein, along with Joseph Karl Stieler, Peter von Hess (1792–1871) and Friedrich von Gärtner, to create better opportunities for artists to sell and exhibit their works. From the 1820s he travelled through central Europe recording such well-known monuments as the cathedrals of Strasbourg, Cologne and Reims (e.g. Reims Cathedral, 1833; Leipzig, Mus. Bild. Kst.). During these years he also painted numerous views of Munich, e.g. the Old Riding School with the Café Tambosi in the Year 1822 (Munich, Neue Pin.), recording the city’s appearance before King Ludwig I’s architectural changes. As in the views of Canaletto, these scenes, for which he used uniformly warm, earthy colours, are enlivened by a shifting play of light and shade. The figures in them are also interesting from the point of view of costume history. He had a love of Gothic buildings and showed his debt to Romanticism by painting images of medieval hermitages and castles (e.g. Die Ulrichsburg bei Rappoltsweiler, 1817–25; Heidelberg, Kurpfälz. Mus.). In 1833 Crown Prince Maximilian II of Bavaria (later Maximilian II) commissioned him to take charge of the restoration of the ruin of Schloss Hohenschwangau, and in 1833 he began the project, with Georg Friedrich Ziebland as his assistant. Quaglio also began the redesigning of the interior; it was finished after his death by Moritz von Schwind. An example of one of his prints, The Door of Augsburg Cathedral (1816, chalk lithograph), can be seen in Munich (Bayer. Staatsbib.).
Part of the Quaglio family
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