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Balthasar Augustin Albrecht

Balthasar Augustin Albrecht
Born3 January 1687 Edit this on Wikidata
Berg Edit this on Wikidata
Died15 August 1765 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 78)
Munich Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPainter Edit this on Wikidata

Balthasar Augustin Albrecht (1687– 1765) was a German painter.

Life

Altar piece from Dießen am Ammersee showing the Assumption of Mary, from 1738

Albrecht, who was born at Berg, near Aufkirchen in Bavaria, in 1687, was a pupil of Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber, and studied in Venice and Rome. On his return to Germany in 1719, he became popular as an historical painter, and was appointed court-painter and inspector of the Picture Gallery at Munich, where he died in 1765.[1]

References

  1. ^ Bryan,1886-9

Sources