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1702 births 1761 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters {{Germany-painter-stub
Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (1702 in Ebbs
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Geography
Ebbs is located in the Lower Inn Valley near Kufstein, to the e ...
, Tirol - 7 September 1761 in Augsburg
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) was an Austrian
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painter
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.
Life
He was born Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in Tyrol and he learnedglass painting
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in Salzburg
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. He moved to Augsburg and worked as a glass painter. The ceiling painting in the Sanctuary of the Holy Cross of the former Klosters Mountains is considered as his largest and most important work.
Works
*Ceiling frescoes of the Sanctuary of St. Mary of Mount Carmel in Baitenhausen in Meersburg on Lake Constance, 1760 * Ceiling frescoes in the nave of the Sanctuary of St. Maria Loreto in Westheim * '' The Martyrdom of St. Venantius of Camerino '' * '' Daily edification of a true Christian '' * '' Mark the Evangelist writing '' * '' The Holy. John I. and the Gothic King Theodoric '' * ''Drawings of Bible pictures in Historia veteris (ac novi) Testamenti Iconibus Expressa''References
Further reading
* Bruno Bushart, Friedrich Kaess: '' monastery Bergen Neuburg an der Donau and its frescoes by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner ''. 1981 * Peter Stoll and Heide-Maria Krauthauf: "Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner and the 'Holy Albert of Trapani' in the former Carmelite Schongauer". In: '' The Welf: Yearbook of the Historical Society Schongau - town and country '' 10 (2008/09), S. 177-194. * Peter Stoll: '' Anton Winter Gerst copied Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner ''. University Library, Augsburg 2013full text
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