German painter
Ceiling fresco in the Wies Church Detail of the fresco in St. Michael Berg am Laim Holy Trinity , Klosterkirche WörishofenJohann Baptist Zimmermann (3 January 1680, Gaispoint — 2 March 1758, Munich ) was a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque .
Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint, Wessobrunn . He and his brother Dominikus Zimmermann were descended from an artist family of the Wessobrunner School .
Work 1701 stucco and fresco for the church Mariä Empfängnis of Gosseltshausen 1707 stucco and fresco for the church Maria Schnee in Markt Rettenbach vor 1710 und 1728: Stucco for the Tegernsee Abbey 1709/1710: Design for the church St. Johannes in Neuburg an der Kammel-Edelstetten 1709/1710-1713/1727 (cooperation with his brother): Fresco of Marienkapelle and stucco and fresco for the library of Reichskartause in Buxheim (Allgäu) 1711-1713: stucco and fresco for the Klosterkirche Maria Saal 1714: stucco and fresco of Pfarrkirche St. Sixtus von Schliersee 1714-1722: Stucco for the Ottobeuren Abbey ca 1715 stucco and fresco for rooms of Maxlrain castle (since) 1716 stucco and fresco for the Benediktuskirche in Freising 1717: stucco and fresco in the chapel and the dining room of Ismaning palace 1718-1722 (cooperation with his brother): decoration of the church Mariä Himmelfahrt in Maria Medingen 1720-1726: Stucco for the Grand Stairway of Schleissheim Palace under Joseph Effner 1720-1726/1727: Stucco for the Sommerzimmer and the Spiegelsaal of the first northern Pavillon of Nymphenburg Palace 1722/1723 (cooperation with his brother): Decoration of St. Mary in Bad Wörishofen 1724 und 1731-1733: stucco and fresco for Benediktbeuern Abbey 1725/1726-1727/1729: Design and stucco of St. Peter und Paul in Buxheim (Allgäu) 1725/1727-1728/1733 (cooperation with his brother): Decoration of St. Markus in Sießen/Saulgau 1726-1733: stucco for the Residenz, Munich 1727-1733: Decoration of St. Peter und Paul in Steinhausen 1727/1730-1731/1733 (cooperation with his brother): Fresco of the church in Steinhausen 1729: stucco and fresco of St. Peter und Paul in Weyarn 1729/1741-1741/1748: stucco and fresco of Mariä Himmelfahrt church in Dietramszell 1730 stucco and fresco of the church of Beyharting 1730-1739: Stucco in the Reiche Zimmern of the Residenz, Munich 1732: Fresco of Neumünster church in Würzburg 1733/34: Decoration of the monastery Seligenthal in Landshut 1733/1754-1756/1760: stucco and fresco of St. Dionys und Juliana in Schäftlarn Abbey 1734-1737/1739: stucco of the Amalienburg in Munich-Nymphenburg 1735/1738-1740: Design of the Mariä Himmelfahrt in Prien am Chiemsee 1737/1743-1744/1752: stucco and fresco of St. Michael in Berg am Laim 1738: House Kern in Wasserburg am Inn 1745-1752: Design and stucco of Ettal Abbey 1747/1749-1752: baroque renovation of St. Blasius in Landshut 1748/1752-1752/1754: stucco and fresco of the church "Maria Brünnlein zum Trost" in Wemding 1749 und 1753-1754: fresco in the Wieskirche Fresco in Nymphenburg Palace 1751-1752/1754: stucco and fresco in Andechs Abbey St. Nikolaus und St. Elisabeth 1751-1761: baroque renovation of the church St. Anna in München-Harlaching 1753/1754: stucco and fresco in St. Peter in Munich 1755/56-1757: stucco and fresco of the Steinerner Saal in Nymphenburg Palace in Munich 1756: Fresco of Prämonstratenserklosterkirche in Neustift 1757: Decoration of Pfarrkirche St. Vitus in Abensberg-Offenstetten
External links Harriet Brinkmöller-Gandlau (1998). "Johann Baptist Zimmermann". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 14. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 494–497. ISBN 3-88309-073-5 Entry for Johann Baptist Zimmermann on the Union List of Artist Names Wikimedia Commons has media related to Johann Baptist Zimmermann .
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