Johann Christian Thomas Wink (1738-1797),

• Was a German painter.
• He was born in Eichstätt.

• Christian Wink was the son of the prince-bishop's corporal Augustin Wink and his wife Walburga.

• He is the younger brother of Johann Chrysostomus Wink.
• His brother helped him get an apprenticeship with Anton Scheidler in Eggenfelden, a fellow painter friend of his.
• After his apprenticeship, Christian Wink moved to the workshop of Johann Jakob Feichtmayer in Eichstätt. 
• Presumably Wink attended the Imperial City Academy there between 1759 and 1760.
• After a short stay in Freising, he moved on to Munich, where he worked from 1760.
• In 1769 Wink was appointed court painter to the Bavarian Elector.
• Wink was married to Elisabeth Schega.

• He lived and worked in Munich until his death in 1797. 

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