Johann Dominik Bossi Explained

Johann Dominik Bossi (1767–1853), also known as Domenico Bossi, was a painter.

Bossi, a student of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, was born in Trieste and worked primarily as a miniaturist in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Russia before he settled down in Munich, where he lived at Theresien Straße 19 in Munich around 1850.^[1] In Munich he was appointed a court painter. Bossi was the founder of a collection, which included a significant group ofTiepolo drawings amongst others. The collection passed to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi (1825–1881), and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826–1881). The Bossi-Beyerlen collection was sold at auction in Stuttgart and dispersed in March 1882.^[2]

Further reading

• Bernardo Falconi und Bernd Pappe: Domenico Bossi, 1768 – 1853. Da Venezia al Nord Europa. La carriera di un maestro del ritratto in miniatura. Verona, Scripta edizioni, 2012.

Notes and References

1. Paul Maucher: Alphabetic register of house owners 1849-1851, p. 6.
2. http://1001.netclime.net/1_5/155/2ec/344/Graffiti%20page.pdf Master Drawings London 2007