Wessobrunner School

Dominikus Zimmermann's work at Wies Church, Steingaden, Germany
Wessobrunner stucco at Schussenried Abbey
Late Baroque stucco with some Rococo elements in the Kreuzherrnkirche in Memmingen

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.

The names of more than 600 stucco-workers who emerged from this school are known. The Wessobrunner stucco-workers exerted a decisive influence on, and at times even dominated, the art of stucco in south Germany in the 18th century.

The concept of the Wessobrunner School goes back to the art historians Gustav von Bezold and Georg Hacker, who in 1888 first used the name to designate this group of artists and craftsmen.