Glass painters 18th century
Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner was an Austrian-German Rococo painter.
He worked as a glass painter. The ceiling painting in the Sanctuary of the Holy Cross of the former Klosters Mountains is considered as his largest and most important work.
Karl Wilhelm Kolbe the Younger was a German painter of the first half of the 19th century. He is known as a painter-genre painter and stained glass artist, nephew of the famous painter Karl Wilhelm Kolbe.
Early in his career, Kolbe the Younger won a competition at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts with his drawing "The Doom of Froben at the Battle of Verbellin". He favored historical subjects, inspired by the Dutch tradition. The famous painting "Albrecht Achilles seizes the banner in the battle of Nuremberg" was purchased from him by the city of Berlin as a gift for Princess Louise of Prussia. The master also created stained glass windows for the Marienburg Castle in Prussia, some of which are now in Berlin's Old National Gallery.
Aart Schouman was a Dutch painter, member of the Guild of St. Luke in Dordrecht and The Hague, and for many years was a leading painter in Zealand and the south of Holland. Most of his work consists of portraits and large paintings on wallpaper, he also did etchings and engravings on glass and copper and stained glass. Schaumann was interested in mythological and biblical themes, and later became famous for his watercolors of city and park landscapes and unique compositions with exotic birds, rare animals and plants.
Dirk van der Aa, also known as Theodorus van der Ha or Thierry van der Aa, was a Dutch Rococo painter, graphic ornamentalist. He was a member of the Guild of St. Luke in The Hague. He was primarily an interior painter and became known for his painterly decorative allegories and works executed in monochrome grisaille technique.