(b Linz, 1693; d Wels, 1757). Austrian painter. He was the son of a master cooper in Linz and may have served an apprenticeship with the Wels painter Johann Cyprian Wimberger (1671–1719). In 1717–18 he completed his first work, frescoes for the collegiate church of St Nikola in Passau. Following these he developed a popular and highly distinctive style of fresco painting, typical of the Bavarian school, in frescoes in the abbey church of St Mauritius (1719–22) Niederaltaich; the abbey church of St Michael (1722–4), Metten; the Kalvarienbergkirche (1724) Lambach; the sacristy in Kremsmünster Abbey (1725); St Johannes Baptist (1728), Rinchnach; and Maria Himmelfahrt (1734), Spital am Pyhrn.