Domenico Quaglio II (1787–1837)

• Was a German painter, engraver, stage designer, and architect.

• He was the second son of Giuseppe Quaglio and part of the large Quaglio pedigree of Italian artists involved in architecture, indoor fresco decoration.

• He was born in Munich.

• He was taught perspective and scene-painting by his father, and engraving by Mettenleiter and Karl Hess.

• In 1819 he resigned his post as scene-painter, and occupied himself only with architecture.

• As architect in charge, Domenico Quaglio was responsible for the neogothic style of the exterior design of Hohenschwangau Castle.

• Quaglio died at Hohenschwangau in 1837.

• He engraved twelve plates of'Architectural Monuments’‘, and lithographed thirty Remarkable German Buildings of the Middle Ages.

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