Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Ceiling painting “Assumption and Coronation of Mary” in Baitenhausen, 1760

Saint Alexius von Edessa under the stairs of his parents' house, sketch in ink

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (* 1702 in Ebbs , Tyrol, † 7. September 1761 in Augsburg ) was an Austrian - German rococo - painter .

Life

Was born Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in Tyrol and he learned in Salzburg , the glass painting . After he moved his sphere of activity to Bavarian Swabia , he was added to the Augsburg School .

The ceiling painting in the pilgrimage church of the Holy Cross of the former Bergen monastery is regarded as the largest and most important work by Baumgartner .

Well-known works (excerpt)

• Ceiling frescoes of the pilgrimage church St. Maria zum Berge Karmel in Baitenhausen near Meersburg on Lake Constance, 1760
• Ceiling frescoes in the nave of the pilgrimage church St. Maria Loreto in Westheim
• The Martyrdom of St. Venantius of Camerino
• Daily edification of a true Christian
• The Evangelist Mark writing
• The Holy Pope John I and the Gothic King Theodoric
• Drawings of the Bible pictures in Historia veteris (ac novi) Testamenti Iconibus Expressa

literature

• Johann Rudolf Füssli , Hans Heinrich Füssli : General Artist Lexicon , Volume 1, Part 1, Orell, Füssli & Company, Zurich 1810, pp. 52–53 ( digitized version )
• Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon , Volume 1, Verlag EA Fleischmann, Munich 1839, p. 327 ( digitized version )
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Baumgartner, Johann Wolfgang . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 192 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hermann Alexander Müller , Hans Wolfgang Singer (Eds.): General Artist Lexicon , Rütten & Loening , Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 82 ( digitized version )
• Bruno Bushart , Friedrich Kaess: Bergen monastery near Neuburg on the Danube and its frescoes by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner . 1981
• Peter Stoll, Heide-Maria Krauthauf: Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner and the 'Saint Albert of Trapani' in the former Carmelite Church in Schongau . In: Der Welf: Yearbook of the Historical Association Schongau - Stadt und Land 10 (2008/09), pp. 177–194.
• Peter Stoll: Elevations of the Cross: The frescoes by Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in Bergen and Christian Thomas Winks in Loh . University Library, Augsburg 2007 ( full text )
• Peter Stoll: Anton Wintergerst copies Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner . University Library, Augsburg 2013 ( full text )

Web links

Commons : Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner on artnet
• Biography and works of Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in: Digitales Belvedere
• Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in the Bavarian National Museum
• Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in ArtCyclopedia
• Biography on schwabenmedia.de