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Franz Joseph Spiegler

1691–1757 · 18th century

Franz Joseph Spiegler was a German painter of the late baroque, active mainly in upper Swabia and around Lake Constance. His largest work is the cycle of ceiling frescoes in the abbey church of Zwiefalten, painted from 1751, whose nave fresco is one of the largest of the period. He also painted altarpieces and church frescoes across the region and died at Konstanz in 1757.

Franz Joseph Spiegler
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