Simon Quaglio (1795-1878) was a German stage designer of Italian extraction. He worked mainly in Munich, and was in the course of the first designers to use built scenery on the other hand of painted flats. He designed higher than 100 productions during his career.
Simon was portion of the Quaglio relatives originally from the town of Laino, between Lake Como and Lake Lugano. Simon’s father, Giuseppe Quaglio (1747-1828), practiced scene painting in Mannheim, Frankfurt, and Ludwigsburg. Simon’s brother, Angelo Quaglio (1778-1810), was an architect and painter. He designed and painted landscapes and architectural pictures for Boisserée’s work on Cologne Cathedral. Simon was afterward a lithographer.
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