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