Johann Baptist Zimmermann

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Dome fresco of the Wieskirche
Ceiling fresco in Nymphenburg Palace
Detail of the ceiling fresco, St. Michael, Berg am Laim

Johann Baptist Zimmermann (born January 3, 1680 in Gaispoint , today Wessobrunn , † March 2, 1758 in Munich ) was a German painter and plasterer of the Baroque and Rococo periods .

origin

His parents were the plasterer Elias Zimmermann (* June 20, 1656 in Gaispoint; † around 1696) and Justina Zimmermann née Rohrmoser (*?; † October 20, 1717 in Wessobrunn).

Like his younger brother Dominikus Zimmermann , with whom he frequently worked, Johann Baptist Zimmermann is assigned to the Wessobrunn School . On March 28, 1705 he married Elisabeth Ostermayr, who was in the service of Countess Maxlrain, and in 1707 settled in Maxlrain'schen Markt Miesbach , where his five children were born and baptized, including his sons and close collaborators Johann Joseph and Franz Michael.

In 1715 he settled in the prince-bishop's residence town of Freising , from where he mainly worked for the Ottobeuren monastery. There he made the acquaintance of the Venetian Jacopo Amigoni , who in 1719 painted his first ceiling picture for this monastery church. Probably through his mediation the attention of the court architect Joseph Effner was drawn to Zimmermann. He probably won his first order for the Munich court with the stuccoing of the stairwell of Schleissheim Palace . He moved there around 1720, was appointed court plasterer with court protection in 1729 and also became the preferred plasterer of the Bavarian nobility. In 1732 he created frescoes for the prince-bishop in the Würzburg Neumünster Church in the Würzburg monastery and in 1724 the painting Johannes auf Patmos for the main altar there .

Honors

Johann-Baptist-Zimmermann-Streets exist in Grafing near Munich , Miesbach , Schäftlarn and Weyarn . There is also a Brüder-Zimmermann-Straße in Steingaden , near the Wieskirche , which honors him together with his brother Dominikus.

Works

Saint Peter in Munich
Ceiling of the choir of St. Sixtus in Schliersee

(+ DZ) documents works on which his brother Dominikus Zimmermann also worked.

Ceiling fresco, Nymphenburg Palace

literature

  • Hermann Bauer, Anna Bauer: Johann Baptist and Dominikus Zimmermann. Origin and completion of the Bavarian Rococo . Pustet, Regensburg 1985, ISBN 3-7917-0918-6 .
  • Harriet Brinkmöller-Gandlau:  Johann Baptist Zimmermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 494-497.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 658 and 662.
  • Sixtus Lampl : Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680–1758): pioneer of the Bavarian Rococo. In addition, CD recordings with unknown music of the time. Schlossverlag, Valley 2008, ISBN 3-932055-05-5 .
  • Christina Thon: Johann Baptist Zimmermann as stucco . Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1977, ISBN 3-7954-0406-1 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Baptist Zimmermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 658.
  2. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 658.
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and plasterer of the Baroque era
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaispoint near Wessobrunn
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1758
Place of death Munich