Johann Georg Bergmüller

Bergmüller was born in Türkheim near Buchloe (now in Bavaria) and received his first artistic education at his father's cabinet making workshop.

He also married Barbara Kreutzerin, with whom he had ten children, one of which, Johann Baptist Bergmüller [de], became a fresco painter too, as well as a renowned copperplate engraver and art theorist.

Bergmüller quickly acquired a high reputation in Augsburg and created numerous works of art, few of which have survived however.

He became the most important teacher of fresco painting at the Imperial City of Augsburg Academy, founded in 1710.

He became the Catholic director of the academy alongside his Protestant counterpart, in 1730, and remained in this function until his death in Augsburg in 1762.