Giuseppe Quaglio

Who was Giuseppe Quaglio?

Giuseppe Quaglio was an Italian painter and stage designer, active in scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg.

Born in the town of Laino, between Lake Como and Lake Lugano, Giuseppe is part of the Quaglio family of scene painters, architects, and artists. Giuseppe's sons include the scene designer Simon, active mainly in Munich, Angelo Quaglio the Elder, an architect and painter. He designed and painted landscapes and architectural pictures for Boisserée's work on Cologne Cathedral, Domenico, a landscape and architectural painter, scene painter, engraver, and architect, born in Munich and died at Hohenschwangau; and Lorenzo, a genre painter and lithographer.