(b Vienna, bapt 3 March 1719; d Eger, 1 Dec 1779). Austrian painter. Born of a Viennese family of sculptors of Bohemian origin, he attended the Akademie der Bildenden K?nste in Vienna (1733-44) while studying fresco painting as the apprentice to Anton Herzog (1692-1740). His art was heavily influenced by Paul Troger. In the late 1740s he settled in Moravia, initially as apprentice to Joseph Thadeus Rotter (1701-63) of Brno: in 1749 he was working independently in Znojmo, where he started a family. While continuing work on altarpieces here, he was commissioned in Hungary (1752-6) for frescoes, portraits and other oil paintings in the Premonstratensian Abbey in Jasov and in the Paulite church and monastery in Vranov nad Topl'ou.
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