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
- Wilhering—Stiftskirche Mariä Himmelfahrt
Baden-Württemberg
- Bad Säckingen—Convent Church of St. Fridolin
- Haigerloch—Pilgrimage Church of St. Anne
- Kisslegg—Neues Schloss
- Seeon im Chiemgau—Chapel of St. Nicholas at the Benedictine Monastery of St. Lambert
- Sigmaringen—Catholic Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
- Zwiefalten—Zwiefalten Abbey
Bavaria
- Amorbach—Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Maria
- Augsburg—Dominican Church of St. Magdalena
- Dießen am Ammersee—Church of St. Maria
- Ottobeuren—Benedictine Monastery Church of the Holy Trinity
- Staffelstein—Pilgrimage Church of Vierzehnheiligen
- Würzburg—Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Heimsuchung
