Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner



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