Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Place: Ebbs

Born: 1702

Death: 1761

Biography:

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner was an Austrian-German Rococo painter. He was born Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in Tyrol and he learned glass painting in Salzburg. 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. He painted ceiling frescoes of the Sanctuary of St. Mary of Mount Carmel in Baitenhausen in Meersburg on Lake Constance, 1760 and ceiling frescoes in the nave of the Sanctuary of St. Maria Loreto in Westheim. He also painted 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 and Drawings of Bible pictures in Historia veteris (ac novi) Testamenti Iconibus Expressa. He died in Augsburg on 7 September 1761.