Johann Baptist Zimmermann (3 January 1680, Gaispoint — 2 March 1758,

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

) was a German

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

and a prime stucco plasterer during the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

. Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint,

Wessobrunn Wessobrunn is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district of Weilheim-Schongau in Bavaria in Germany. Paterzell airfield Paterzell airfield is located in Wessobrunn.

. He and his brother

Dominikus Zimmermann Dominikus Zimmermann (30 June 1685, Gaispoint – 16 November 1766, Wies) was a German Rococo architect and stuccoist. Life Dominikus Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint near Wessobrunn in 1685 and became a Baumeister (Architect) and a stuc ...

were descended from an artist family of the

Wessobrunner School The Wessobrunner School is the name for a group of Baroque stucco-workers that, beginning at the end of the 17th century, developed in the Benedictine Wessobrunn Abbey in Bavaria, Germany. The names of more than 600 stucco-workers who emerged f ...

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 Tegernsee Abbey (German Kloster Tegernsee, ''Abtei Tegernsee'') is a former Benedictine monastery in the town and district of Tegernsee in Bavaria. Both the abbey and the town that grew up around it, are named after the Tegernsee, the lake on the ...

* 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 Schliersee is a small town (Markt) and a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. It is named after the nearby Lake Schliersee. It comprises the districts Schliersee (town), , , , Josefsthal and Spitzingsee. Among the poi ...

* 1714-1722: Stucco for the

Ottobeuren Abbey Ottobeuren is a Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany. For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the 40-odd self-ruling imperial abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a vi ...

* ca 1715 stucco and fresco for rooms of Maxlrain castle * (since) 1716 stucco and fresco for the Benediktuskirche in

Freising Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000. Location Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the Is ...

* 1717: stucco and fresco in the chapel and the dining room of

Ismaning Ismaning is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, located near Munich. Geography In 2016 it had 16,770 inhabitants. The town is located about seven kilometers northeast of Munich on the right high bank of the Isar River that flows into the Danube. ...

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 The Schleißheim Palace (german: Schloss Schleißheim) comprises three individual palaces in a grand Baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim, a suburb of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The palace was a summer residence of the Bavarian rulers ...

under

Joseph Effner Joseph Effner (February 4, 1687 (baptized) – February 23, 1745) was a German architect and decorator. Biography Effner was born in Dachau as a son of the court gardener Christian Öffner. Effner accompanied the elector of Bavaria Max Ema ...

* 1720-1726/1727: Stucco for the Sommerzimmer and the Spiegelsaal of the first northern Pavillon of

Nymphenburg Palace The Nymphenburg Palace (german: Schloss Nymphenburg, Palace of the Nymphs) is a Baroque palace situated in Munich's western district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, in Bavaria, southern Germany. Combined with the adjacent Nymphenburg Palace Park it consti ...

* 1722/1723 (cooperation with his brother): Decoration of St. Mary in

Bad Wörishofen Bad Wörishofen () is a spa town in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany, known for the water-cure (hydrotherapy) developed by Sebastian Kneipp (1821–1897), a Catholic priest who lived there for 42 years. Many of the resort hotels an ...

* 1724 und 1731-1733: stucco and fresco for

Benediktbeuern Abbey Benediktbeuern Abbey (Kloster Benediktbeuern) is an institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco, originally a monastery of the Benedictine Order, in Benediktbeuern in Bavaria, near the Kochelsee, 64 km south-south-west of Munich. It is the oldest ...

* 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 The Residenz (, ''Residence'') in central Munich is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. The Residenz is the largest city palace in Germany and is today open to visitors for its architecture, room decorations, and displ ...

* 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 Weyarn is a municipality in the district of Miesbach in Bavaria in Germany. It dates back to a monastery that was founded by Siboto II, count of Falkenstein in 1133. It is located 38 km southeast of Munich and can be easily reached on hig ...

* 1729/1741-1741/1748: stucco and fresco of Mariä Himmelfahrt church in

Dietramszell Dietramszell is a municipality in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, Germany. The community of 5,282 (2005) residents sits 685 meters above sea level. The idyllic community became internationally known after the " torture prince ...

* 1730 stucco and fresco of the church of Beyharting * 1730-1739: Stucco in the Reiche Zimmern of the

* 1732: Fresco of Neumünster church in

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzburg is ...

* 1733/34: Decoration of the monastery Seligenthal in

Landshut Landshut (; bar, Landshuad) is a town in Bavaria in the south-east of Germany. Situated on the banks of the River Isar, Landshut is the capital of Lower Bavaria, one of the seven administrative regions of the Free State of Bavaria. It is also t ...

* 1733/1754-1756/1760: stucco and fresco of St. Dionys und Juliana in

Schäftlarn Abbey Schäftlarn Abbey (Kloster Schäftlarn) is a Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery on the Isar in Schäftlarn, south of Munich in Bavaria, Germany. History The monastery was founded in 762 by Waldrich, Bishop of Passau, Waltrich, a prie ...

* 1734-1737/1739: stucco of the

Amalienburg The Amalienburg is an elaborate hunting lodge on the grounds of the Nymphenburg Palace Park, Munich, in southern Germany. It was designed by François de Cuvilliés in Rococo style and constructed between 1734 and 1739 for Elector Karl Albr ...

in Munich-Nymphenburg * 1735/1738-1740: Design of the Mariä Himmelfahrt in

Prien am Chiemsee Prien am Chiemsee (official: , High German [], Bavarian (local) dialect []) is a municipality in the Upper Bavarian Rosenheim (district), district of Rosenheim in Germany. The town is a certified Luftkurort, air and Sebastian Kneipp, Kneipp spa o ...

* 1737/1743-1744/1752: stucco and fresco of St. Michael in Berg am Laim * 1738: House Kern in

Wasserburg am Inn Wasserburg am Inn (Central Bavarian: ''Wassabuag am Inn'') is a town in Rosenheim district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The historic centre is a peninsula formed by the meandering river Inn. Many Medieval structures remain intact, giving the city a ...

* 1745-1752: Design and stucco of

Ettal Abbey Ettal Abbey (german: Kloster Ettal) is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Ettal close to Oberammergau and Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. With a community (as of 2005) of more than 50 monks, with another five at Wechselburg, th ...

* 1747/1749-1752: baroque renovation of St. Blasius in

* 1748/1752-1752/1754: stucco and fresco of the church "Maria Brünnlein zum Trost" in Wemding * 1749 und 1753-1754: fresco in the

Wieskirche The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (german: Wieskirche) is an oval Rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by brothers J. B. and Dominikus Zimmermann, the latter of whom lived nearby for the last eleven years of his life. It is located in the foothil ...

* 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

in Munich * 1756: Fresco of Prämonstratenserklosterkirche in Neustift * 1757: Decoration of Pfarrkirche St. Vitus in Abensberg-Offenstetten

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