Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner (1712–1761)

• Was an Austrian-German Rococo painter.

• He was born Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner in Tyrol.

• 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.

• He also made the ceiling frescoes in the nave of the Sanctuary of St. Maria Loreto in Westheim.

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