Dominikus Zimmermann
Dominikus Zimmermann (30 June 1685, Gaispoint – 16 November 1766, Wies) was a German Rococo architect and stuccoist.
Dominikus Zimmermann
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- Born
- 1685
- Died
- 1766
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- architect · politician · painter · plasterer · mayor
- Known for
- Wieskirche
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Dominikus Zimmermann (30 June 1685, Gaispoint – 16 November 1766, Wies) was a German Rococo architect and stuccoist.
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Dominikus Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint near Wessobrunn in 1685 and became a Baumeister (Architect) and a stuccoist. His older brother Johann Baptist Zimmermann was an architect and a frescoist. Working together they produced masterpieces such as the church at Steinhausen. Dominikus Zimmermann descended from a family of artists and craftsmen belonging to the so-called Wessobrunner School, worked first as a stuccoist and later as a master builder and architect. He lived in Landsberg am Lech, where he was mayor between 1748–53. He died near the pilgrims' church in Wies near Steingaden in 1766.
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1685
Dominikus Zimmermann born at Wessobrunn.
1766
Dominikus Zimmermann died in 1766.
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Abbey church, Mödingen (1716–1725) in the district of Dillingen Old town hall (1719) and St John's Church (1752) in Landsberg am Lech Pilgrimage church in Steinhausen near Bad Schussenried (1728–1733) Church of Our Lady in Günzburg (1735–1740) Pilgrimage church in Wies near Steingaden (1745–54)
Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Leonhard in Baiershofen, einem Ortsteil der Gemeinde Altenmünster im Landkreis Augsburg (Bayern), 6. Kreuzwegstation und Porträt des Apostels Thomas, Gemälde von Dominikus Zimmermann
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Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Leonhard in Baiershofen, einem Ortsteil der Gemeinde Altenmünster im Landkreis Augsburg (Bayern), 4. Kreuzwegstation und Porträt des Apostels Jakobus des Älteren, Gemälde von Dominikus Zimmermann
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- 1.Vollmer 2 420 Henning, Erwin
- 2.Stefan Kummer: Architektur und bildende Kunst von den Anfängen der Renaissance bis zum Ausgang des Barock. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): Geschichte der Stadt Würzburg. 4 Bände; Band 2: Vom Bauernkrieg 1525 bis zum Übergang an das Königreich Bayern 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8, S. 576–678 und 942–952, hier: S. 662 und 950.
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