Christoph Thomas Scheffler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Christoph Thomas Scheffler

German artist

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1699

Place of Birth: Mainburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1756

Profession: painter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About 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.
  • 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. 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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