Johann Baptist Zimmermann

Johann 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

Media related to Johann Baptist Zimmermann at Wikimedia Commons
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