Balthasar Augustin Albrecht

Balthasar Augustin Albrecht
Born	3 January 1687  Berg
Died	15 August 1765  (aged 78) Munich
Occupation	Painter

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.

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Albrecht, Balthasar Augustin". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.