Martin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser Schmidt or Kremserschmidt,, was one of the outstanding Austrian painters of the late Baroque/Rococo along with Franz Anton Maulbertsch.
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Characteristic late work in which all detail dissolves in uncountable specks of pigment in a seemingly random way: "The Beheading of Saint Catherine", 1791, study for an altar painting for Brno Cathedral that came not to be executed. Feuchtmüller (1989), catalogue raisonné No. 945
The Virgin (1755), main altar of the parish church of Waizenkirchen (Upper Austria)Artists from Germany 6
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GermanyCategory
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Artist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1718 to 1801 · aged 82
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