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Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, artist
German, 1712 - 1761
Elementum Terrae (Allegory of the Earth), circa 1750
Ink, wash, and graphite with white and blue opaque watercolor on blue-gray laid paper
48.6 x 68.6 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1969.31

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Artist Biography: Painter, draftsman and engraver. Exemplifies South German Rococo with highly finished drawings, paintings, and frescoes. Was first trained as a glass painter in Salzburg. In 1773 he settled in Augsburg, and there became a leading painter and draftsman. Best known for his fresco decorations in churches, in particular those at Gertshofen and Eggenhausen near Augsburg. Also known for the hundreds of rococo designs he made for the engravers of Augsburg, then a major publishing center for the decorative arts.

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