Paul Troger

Paul Troger
Self portrait at the age of 30
Born(1698-10-30)30 October 1698
Died20 July 1762(1762-07-20) (aged 63)
NationalityAustrian
EducationGiuseppe Alberti, Sebastiano Ricci and Francesco Solimena
Known forPainting
Notable workFrescoes in Altenburg, Melk and Göttweig Abbeys
MovementBaroque

Paul Troger (30 October 1698 – 20 July 1762) was an Austrian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of the late Baroque period. Troger's illusionistic ceiling paintings in fresco are notable for their dramatic vitality of movement and their palette of light colors.

Paul Troger’s style, particularly in his frescoes, dominated Austrian painting until the end of the 18th century and profoundly influenced significant artists of the next generation, notably Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Johann Wenzel Bergl and Johann Lucas Kracker.