Kaspar Waldmann

(b Innsbruck, 15 July 1657; d Innsbruck, 18 November 1720). Austrian painter. After studying with his father, Michael Waldmann I (c. 1605-58), he learnt fresco-painting from Egid and Johann Paul Schor in Innsbruck. He may have travelled to Italy during his journeyman years but from 1684 is recorded as a citizen of Innsbruck. He married a rich brewer's daughter and was appointed to the city council in 1692. The same year he finished an altarpiece for Brixlegg Pfarrkirche, St Anthony with the Infant Jesus, and SS Erasmus and Maximilian (now Innsbruck, Tirol. Landesmus.). Taking the ideas of Egid Schor as his starting point, Waldmann here moves from an originally sharply delineated approach to freer compositions. This closeness to Late Baroque conventions of form is evident in Waldmann's altarpiece for the Servitenkloster in Rattenberg, St Nicholas of Tolentino Kissing the Wounds of Christ (1700; Innsbruck, Tirol. Landesmus.).

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