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.

Ceiling fresco in the Wies Church
Detail of the fresco in St. Michael Berg am Laim

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
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  • 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). 14. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 494–497. ISBN 3-88309-073-5.
  • Entry for Johann Baptist Zimmermann on the Union List of Artist Names
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