Johann Michael Feuchtmayer


Johann Michael Feuchtmayer was a German stuccoworker and sculptor of the late Baroque period. He collaborated with the architects Johann Michael Fischer, Johann Joseph Christian, and Franz Joseph Spiegler on numerous ecclesiastical buildings in Upper Swabia. His stucco decoration in the Benedictine abbey church of Ottobeuren is considered his crowning achievement.
Feuchtmayer was born into a family of artists in Wessobrunn, Bavaria. He and his uncle, the stuccoworker Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer ; his uncle, the painter Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder ; his brother Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder ; his cousin, the painter and sculptor Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer ; and his nephew, Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, comprise the Wessobrunner School.

Major works

Austria