Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner ( * 1702 in Ebbs, Tirol, † September 7, 1761 in Augsburg ) was an Austro- German Rococo painter.

Life

Born Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in Tyrol and Salzburg he learned in the reverse glass painting. After he moved his sphere of influence by Bavarian Swabia, he is attributed to the Augsburg school.

As the largest and most important work Baumgartners the ceiling painting is seen in the Sanctuary of the Holy Cross of the former monastery mountains.

Famous Works (excerpt)

• Ceiling frescoes in the pilgrimage church of St. Mary of Mount Carmel in Baitenhausen in Meersburg on Lake Constance, 1760
• Ceiling frescoes in the nave of the pilgrimage church of St. Maria Loreto in Western Home
• The martyrdom of St.. Venantius of Camerino
• Daily edification of a true Christian
• Mark the Evangelist writing
• The Holy Pope John I. and Gothic king Theodoric
• Drawings of Bible pictures in Historia veteris (ac novi ) Testamenti Iconibus Expressa