Balthasar Augustin Albrecht

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

This article incorporates text from the article "ALBRECHT, Balthasar Augustin" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.