Dominikus zimmermans biography

Zimmermann Brothers.Bavarian artists, sons of Elias Zimmermann(1656–95), stucco worker and mason, they were masters of the South-German Rococostyle, creating several masterpieces. Born near Wessobrunn, where the Abbey was the centre of one of the most important and innovative schools of workers in stucco, they probably trained under Johann Schmu(t)zer, the leading C17 Wessobrunn architect and stuccoer. The Zimmermanns usually worked independently, but joined forces to create some of their best work (e.g. the Pilgrimage Churches of Steinhausen and Die Wies). They acquired and evolved a light, delicate, and elegant style perhaps influenced by French exemplars, but certainly far removed from the heavy C17 German Baroqueof some of Schmu(t)zer's creations. Dominikus Zimmermann(1685–1766) was a stuccoer and scagliolaworker before emerging as one of the most gifted architects of the first half of C18 in Southern Germany. His older brother, Johann Baptist Zimmermann(1680–1758), was not only a stuccoer and worker in scagliola, but a fine

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