Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (1735 – 1803) was a member of the German Feuchtmayer

Feuchtmayer

The Feuchtmayers were a German family of artists from the Baroque Wessobrunner School....

 family of Baroque artists

Baroque sculpture

Baroque sculpture is the sculpture associated with the Baroque cultural movement, a movement often identified with the existence of important Baroque art and architecture in non-absolutist and Protestant states.-Course:...

 associated with the Wessobrunner School

Wessobrunner School

The Wessobrunner School is the name for a group of Baroque stucco-workers that, beginning at the end of the 17th century, developed in the Benedictine Wessobrunn Abbey in Bavaria, Germany....

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He was the son of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer

Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School.A member of the famous Feuchtmayer family, he was the son of Michael Feuchtmayer Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer (the Elder) (1698, Wessobrunn, Bavaria – 1763) was a German Baroque stucco plasterer of the...

 (the Elder) (1705–1764); the grandson of Michael Feuchtmayer

Michael Feuchtmayer

Michael Feuchtmayer was a member of the Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the German Wessobrunner School.He was the brother of Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; the father of Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer ; the...

 (b. 1667); the great-nephew of Johann Michael Feuchtmayer

Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder

Johann Michael Feuchtmayer was a German painter and copper engraver.He was born in Wessobrunn, into the famous Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School....

 (the Elder) (1666–1713) and Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer

Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer

Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer was a member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists of the Wessobrunner School.Feuchtmayer was born in Wessobrunn Abbey...

 (1660–1718); and the first cousin once removed

Cousin

In kinship terminology, a cousin is a relative with whom one shares one or more common ancestors. The term is rarely used when referring to a relative in one's immediate family where there is a more specific term . The term "blood relative" can be used synonymously and establishes the existence of...

 of Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer

Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer

Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer was an important Rococo stuccoist and sculptor, active in southern Germany and Switzerland....

 (1696–1770).

His most famous works are the baldacchino

Baldachin

A baldachin, or baldaquin , is a canopy of state over an altar or throne. It had its beginnings as a cloth canopy, but in other cases it is a sturdy, permanent architectural feature, particularly over high altars in cathedrals, where such a structure is more correctly called a ciborium when it is...

 over the high altar and some of the side altars of the Premonstratensian Monastery Church of St. Maria and St. Verena in Rot an der Rot

Rot an der Rot

Rot an der Rot is a town in the district of Biberach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town developed out of Rot an der Rot Abbey....

, constructed in 1777.