Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo (1717 – c. 1801)

• Was a Swiss painter and stage set designer.
• Born in Arogno.
• He was a pupil of his uncle, Luca Antonio Colomba.
• He worked in Frankfurt, Mannheim, Vienna, Hamburg, Prague, Munich and other cities.
• For 18 years, he was the court architect at Stuttgart and stage set designer for the Duke.
• His first documented paintings were for allegorical decorations and quadratura for the ceiling of the Römer at Frankfurt.
• In 1750, he decorated the ducal theatre at Hannover.
• From 1751 to 1768, he was the court painter for the Duke of Württemberg, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, who founded the Academy of Art of Stuttgart.
• From 1769 to 1771, he was the stage set designer for the Teatro Regio, substituting for the members of the Galliari family.
• From 1774 to 1780, he painted sets for Her Majesty's Theatre.
• He participated in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1774. In 1780, he returned to Arogno.
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