Balthasar Augustin Albrecht

Balthasar Augustin Albrecht (1687– 1765) was a German painter.

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