Johann Michael Rottmayr (1654 - 1730)
Johann Michael Rottmayr was trained by his grandfather and his mother. After completing his apprenticeship with Johann Franz Pereth (1622–1678), he spent thirteen years studying with Johann Carl Loth (1632–1698) in Venice. In 1687 he settled in Salzburg, and two years later he received from Prince-Archbishop Johann Ernst Graf Thun (1643–1709) major commissions for frescos in the Mirabell Palace and the Carabinieri Hall of the Residenz. He decorated churches and secular buildings in Vienna, Salzburg and Moravia. In 1704, Emperor Leopold I (1640–1705) conferred upon him the title “von Rosenbrunn”.
Author: Ducke Astrid
Literature: DUCKE Astrid, HABERSATTER Thomas, OEHRING Erika: Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg. Salzburg 2015, S. 108
The Apotheosis of St Charles Borromeo (Sketch for the left side-altar painting in the Collegiate Church, Salzburg), um 1721
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. 259
Homage to a Tutelary Goddess (further interpretation: Allegory of Empress Elisabeth Christine as Astraea), c 1714
Johann Michael Rottmayr
Inv. no. 596