Was born in Milan. Studied in Milan, OH, G. Migliara and E. Corrodi. From 1839 he lived in Russia. Gave drawing lessons in the homes of the St. Petersburg nobility, taught the art of the Princess I. Gagarina (1840s). Drawing the attention of Emperor Nicholas II, received an order for the specific drawings of architectural pavilions in Alexandria and the Kronstadt fortifications. One of the most popular artists among Russian aristocrats in the mid-NINETEENTH century 1851 he carried out orders of the court, together with K. E. Ukhtomsky and Gau was working on a series of watercolor types of halls of the New Hermitage. From 1854 – academician of St. Petersburg Academy of arts, from 1861 Professor "perspective watercolor painting". From 1854 travels a lot, especially in the southern provinces (Crimea), three years lived in the Caucasus, where he carried out the order of Grand Prince Mikhail Nikolayevich. Known as an excellent teacher, gave private lessons. 1865 – 1867 he taught watercolor at the Pavlovsk Institute, 1871 – 1872 in costume classes St. Petersburg Academy of arts and the Central school of technical drawing of Baron Stieglitz. Drawing school the author went to many Russian painters. Was one of the organizers of the Imperial society of watercolorists (1880). He participated in different exhibitions in Russia, Vienna, Paris, London. Brilliantly mastered aerial and architectural perspective, has created a number of upscale finely-detailed drawings. Master of landscape and interior watercolors (the Suite of the palaces in Tsarskoye Selo, Alupka, views of the Hermitage, etc.). Led a fruitful creative activity, wrote watercolor.
A promising painter and a landscape painter who worked almost exclusively in watercolor, was born in Milan, educated in the local Academy of Arts and in 1848 he moved to Russia, where the Emperor Nicholas I soon commissioned him to write a few watercolor images of the pavilions of Peterhof Park and 15 species of Kronstadt fortifications. These works made Premazzi known at the Supreme court and in the circle of Russian aristocracy. For many years he enjoyed a reputation as the best in Russia are good at watercolors. In 1854 the Imperial Academy of Arts for the Chinese rooms in the great Tsarskoye Selo Palace, found him an academician, and in 1861 the types of garden city Novosiltsev in Tsarskoye Selo and some Crimean species was elevated to the rank of Professor. To write sketches from nature, Premazzi has made summer trips to the Crimea, spent three years in the Caucasus, traveled to Switzerland and Italy. The best of his works can be considered as types of the insides of the buildings, remarkable for a strictly proper transfer both linear and aerial perspective, the power of colors and the master receiving a thorough letter; somewhat weaker watercolors, Premazzi with landscape character; in them, chasing playback effects of the solar illumination, the artist falls into arbitrariness and excessive brightness of the colours. Premazzi, earned fame as a great teacher, contributing to many of the existing Russian watercolors. From 1870 to 1874. he taught watercolor painting at the Academy of fine Arts, and then, for three years, doing it with students of the Central school of technical drawing of Baron Stieglitz.
