Christoph Thomas Scheffler
Illustration — Christoph Thomas Scheffler Christoph Thomas Scheffler (sometimes written Schäffler, December 20, 1699 – January 25, 1756) was a German painter of the rococo period. He is best known for his frescoes. Scheffler was born in Mainburg and learned the trade of a painter from his father Wolfgang Scheffler.
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Christoph Thomas Scheffler
Georg Christoph Kilian · Staatliche Graphische Sammlungen München, in: „Der Augsburger Historienmaler Chr. Th. Scheffler“, DKV-Kunstführer 537/9, München [1999] · Public domain
- Born
- 1699 · Mainburg.
- Died
- 1756 · Augsburg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · engraver
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Christoph Thomas Scheffler Christoph Thomas Scheffler (sometimes written Schäffler, December 20, 1699 – January 25, 1756) was a German painter of the rococo period. He is best known for his frescoes. Scheffler was born in Mainburg and learned the trade of a painter from his father Wolfgang Scheffler.
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Between 1719 and 1722, he worked as a journeyman for Cosmas Damian Asam. In 1722, he joined the Jesuit Order as a lay brother and painted several churches for the order. After he had left the order in 1728, he settled in Augsburg, where he died in 1756. • Illustration — Frescoes of Christoph Thomas Scheffler in St. Paulinus church in Trier Among his works are the frescoes of the St. Cäcilia church in Heusenstamm, which was built by Balthasar Neumann for the Schönborn-Heusenstamm family, and those of the St. Paulinus' Church in Trier, funded by Elector Franz Georg von Schönborn. The frescoes in the chapel of the Deutschhaus in Mainz, painted by Scheffler, were destroyed during World War II.
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1699
Christoph Thomas Scheffler was born in 1699 at Mainburg.
1998
Der Augsburger Historienmaler Christoph Thomas Scheffler (1699-1756) (1998) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
1756
Christoph Thomas Scheffler died in 1756 at Augsburg.
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Simone Hartmann; Christoph Thomas Scheffler (1699–1756).
Christoph Thomas Scheffler (1699-1756) (2015) — Open Library
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- Braun, Wilhelm. Cristoph Thomas Scheffler: ein Asamschüler. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung. 1939. 920698548.
- Honour, Hugh. The European vision of America : a special exhibition to honor the Bicentennial of the United States, organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art with the collaboration of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Reunion des musees nationaux, Paris. Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art; Kent, Ohio : Distributed by Kent State University Press. 1975. 978-0-910386-26-5.
- BBKL, s/s1/scheffler_c_t, band=9, autor=Martini, Heiner, artikel=Scheffler, Christoph Thomas, spalten=37-39, ref= archived link
- NDB, 22, 613, 614, Christoph Thomas Scheffler, Paula, Georg, 118754270, ref=
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