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His father was a servant at the Fürstäbtliche Residenz (a monastery complex) in Kempten.
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Balthasar Riepp
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Prince-abbot Rupert von Bodman helped provide him with a basic education, which included drawing lessons from the court painter Franz Benedikt Hermann (1664-1735). In 1725, after some time as an apprentice to Jacob Carl Stauder he took a two-year study trip to Italy, courtesy of a stipend from Anselm Reichlin von Meldegg, the new Prince-abbott. In 1728, he was offered employment in the highly successful workshop of Paul Zeiller in Reutte.
By that time, he was a sought-after artist with students of his own.
In 1738, when Zeiller died, Riepp took over management of his art school. Soon, he felt it was necessary to leave Reutte.
His dependence on alcohol, combined with his generosity toward the needy, slowly reduced him to poverty and homelessness. He died in an emergency shelter in Vils.
Streets in Reutte and Biberbach have been named in his honor.
Foreign the 300th anniversary of his birth in 2003, an exhibition called Genie im Schatten (Genius in the Shadows) toured Kempten, Reutte, Breitenwang and Vils.
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August 2, 1764 (aged 60) -
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Austria Germany