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 Before 1710 and 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 and 1731–1733: stucco and fresco for Benediktbeuern Abbey 1725/1726–1727/1729: Design and stucco of St. Peter and 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 and Paul in Steinhausen 1727/1730–1731/1733 (cooperation with his brother): Fresco of the church in Steinhausen 1729: stucco and fresco of St. Peter and 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 and 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 and 1753–1754: fresco in the Wieskirche
1751–1752/1754: stucco and fresco in Andechs Abbey St. Nikolaus and 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
Entry for Johann Baptist Zimmermann on the Union List of Artist Names