Nymphenburg Palace

Giovanni Antonio Viscardi was a Swiss architect of the baroque, who worked mostly in Bavaria. Giovanni Antonio Viscardi descended from a family which provided several architects who had worked in Bavaria, Styria and Mainz. He started his career as a Superintendent to Enrico Zuccalli before 1675;... in 1678 he was appointed master mason and in 1685 chief architect. Dismissed in 1689 Viscardi worked as an independent architect until he became Zuccalli's successor as chief architect of the Bavarian court in 1706 with the Austrian occupation of Bavaria; he died in office.
more

Enrico Zuccalli, was a Swiss architect who worked for the Wittelsbach regents of Bavaria and Cologne. Zuccalli was born in Roveredo, Switzerland. From 1669 he lived in Munich and became a major representative of the introduction of Italian baroque architecture to Germany. He was a bitter rival of... another Swiss architect, Giovanni Antonio Viscardi. In 1672 Zuccalli became chief architect of the Bavarian court as successor of Agostino Barelli and remained in office until the Austrian invasion of Bavaria in 1706. He died in Munich. He was the uncle of Gaspare Zuccalli who built two churches at Salzburg.
more