Balthasar Augustin Albrecht

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

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.

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Altar piece from Dießen am Ammersee showing the Assumption of Mary , from 1738