Johann Baptist Bergmüller

Promenade in Leipzig - engraving by Bergmüller

Johann Baptist Bergmüller (* 1724 in Augsburg ; † 1785 there ) was a painter, engraver, graphic artist, engraver, art dealer and publisher.

Johann Baptist Bergmüller learned from his father Johann Georg Bergmüller , in whose workshop he worked after his apprenticeship. He lived in Augsburg all his life. None of his numerous paintings on the Augsburg patrician houses have survived, but these can be proven on the basis of documents. After 1767/1768 he was probably only active as a publisher of numerous copperplate engravings and as an art dealer. His frescoes were clearly under the influence of his father.

Works

• St. Vitus in Balzhausen , choir and nave ceiling frescoes as well as the frescoes on the choir arch and the gallery 1768

Wall painting with St. Michael in Horgenzell

• St. Ursula in Horgenzell , ceiling and wall frescoes 1763
• On the Holy Trinity in Landsberg am Lech , choir, vault, side wall and outer wall frescoes 1765/66
• Salzburg , Salzburg Museum, formerly Carolino Augusteum (SMCA) : Christ on the Mount of Olives , pen sketch, green wash, 1760 and Saint Bernardus with a large cross and a bearded saint kneeling over a cloud , sepia

literature

• Bergmüller, Johann Baptist . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 411-412 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Marion Harder-Merkelbach: Bergmüller, Johann Baptist . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , p. 416 f.

Web links

• Bergmüller, Johann Baptist in the German Biography