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(2) Maximilian Joseph von Verschaffelt
(b Mannheim, 1754; d Vienna, 1818). Architect, sculptor and draughtsman, son of (1) Peter Anton von Verschaffelt. Initially he studied under his father, but after they quarrelled he continued his education at the Académie Royale in Paris (1780–81) and in Rome (1782–93), where he also worked as a sculptors’ assistant and eked out a living by producing architectural watercolours for art lovers on the Grand Tour. Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, who was in Italy from 1788 to 1790, employed him as a draughtsman and architect, drawing Classical architecture in Rome and the Campagna (examples in Weimar, Schlossmus. and Schloss Tiefurt) and decorating the Villa Malta (1789), which she rented in Rome. (The decoration has since been moved to the Schloss Tiefurt in Weimar.) In 1793 Verschaffelt accepted the position of architectural and horticultural director in Munich, where he was entrusted with designing the layout of the Englischer Garten, realization of which was carried through by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell in 1804. In 1799 Verschaffelt completed exact architectural drawings of the Munich Residenz (Munich, Bayer. Hauptstaatsarchv), for which he designed extensions, including two identical, longitudinally oval two-storey chapels, one Catholic, one Protestant, alongside each other. His designs, which were in the style of Roman buildings of the High Baroque in the spirit of Bernini and Borromini, and the modern façade in the Empire style, did not accord with the wishes of the Elector’s wife, and Verschaffelt therefore left the Munich court and went to Vienna, where he entered the service of Prince Miklós Esterházy II (see ESTERHÁZY, §I(4)).
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