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Giovanni Battista Colombo (16 December 1717 - 10 April 1801) was a Swiss painter and set designer.
He worked in Frankfurt, Mannheim, Vienna, Hamburg, Prague, Munich and other cities. For 18 years, he was court architect in Stuttgart and set designer to the Duke.
His first documented paintings are the allegorical ceiling decorations of the Römer in Frankfurt, which were destroyed during the Second World War.
In 1749, he was commissioned to decorate a parish church at Uetersen in Schleswig-Holstein. Read the full biography

Giovanni Battista Colombo (16 December 1717 - 10 April 1801) was a Swiss painter and set designer.
He worked in Frankfurt, Mannheim, Vienna, Hamburg, Prague, Munich and other cities. For 18 years, he was court architect in Stuttgart and set designer to the Duke.
His first documented paintings are the allegorical ceiling decorations of the Römer in Frankfurt, which were destroyed during the Second World War.
In 1749, he was commissioned to decorate a parish church at Uetersen in Schleswig-Holstein. In 1750, he decorated the ducal theater in Hanover. From 1751 to 1768, it was the court painter of the Duke of Württemberg, Karl Eugene, who founded the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. In Stuttgart, he created sets for the operas of Niccolò Jommelli and the ballets of Jean-Georges Noverre.
From 1769 to 1771, he was a set designer for the Teatro Regio. An example of his work in that theater are his sets for the 1770 opera “Annibale” which premiered in Turin, written by Jacopo Durandi, with music by Giovanni Paisiello. This work was appreciated on a large scale and by prominent personalities, such as Mozart.
From 1774 to 1780, he painted stage sets for the Queen's Theatre.