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

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.



Alternative names	Georg Christophe Kilian
Description	German engraver
Date of birth/death	4 January 1709	15 June 1781
Location of birth/death	Augsburg	Augsburg
Work location	Augsburg
Authority control	: Q18508225 VIAF: 79202908 ISNI: 0000 0000 7780 0955 ULAN: 500118643 LCCN: n2008006392 GND: 116171375 WorldCat