Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

1702 - 1761

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner was an Austrian-German Rococo painter.

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.

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