Background
Scheffler was born in Mainburg and learned the trade of a painter from his father Wolfgang Scheffler.
Scheffler was born in Mainburg and learned the trade of a painter from his father Wolfgang Scheffler.
He is best known for his frescoes. Between 1719 and 1722, he worked as a journeyman for Cosmas Damian Asam. After he had left the order in 1728, he settled in Augsburg, where he died in 1756.
Among his works are the frescoes of the Saint Cäcilia church in Heusenstamm, which was built by Balthasar Neumann for the Schönborn-Heusenstamm family, and those of the Saint Paulinus" Church in Trier, funded by Elector Franz Georg von Schönborn.