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Name
  
Giovanni Viscardi

Role
  
Architect

Structures
  
Nymphenburg Palace


Giovanni Antonio Viscardi

Died
  
September 9, 1713, Munich, Germany

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Giovanni Antonio Viscardi (27 December 1645 – 9 September 1713) was a Swiss architect of the baroque, who worked mostly in Bavaria.

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Biography

Giovanni Antonio Viscardi was born in San Vittore, Grisons. He was descended from a family which provided several architects who had worked in Bavaria, Styria and Mainz.

He started his career as a Superintendent to Enrico Zuccalli before 1675; in 1678 he was appointed master mason and in 1685 chief architect. Dismissed in 1689, Viscardi worked as an independent architect until he became Zuccalli's successor as chief architect of the Bavarian court in 1706 with the Austrian occupation of Bavaria; he died, aged 67, in Munich, while still in office.

Chief works

  • Mariahilfkirche at Freystadt Abbey (1700–08)
  • New church of St. Mary of Fürstenfeld Abbey (1701-?) (completed in 1747).)
  • Schäftlarn Abbey
  • Expansion of Benediktbeuern Abbey
  • Expansion of the Palace of Nymphenburg (1702 - )
  • Bürgersaal in Munich (1709/1710)
  • Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Munich (1711–1714).)
  • References

    Giovanni Antonio Viscardi Wikipedia