Johann Baptist Wenzel Bergl (1719; †1789)

• Was a Czech-Austrian painter of the Rococo period.

• Bergl was born in Dvůr Králové nad Labem. 

• Studied at the Vienna Academy under the famous Austrian master Paul Troger. 

• His friend was Franz Anton Maulbertsch. 

• He became a sought-after and admired specialist in the field of fresco painting and the court painter of Empress Maria Theresa.

• Bergl decorated six rooms for Maria Theresa in what is now Vienna's district of Hietzing.

• The Empress commissioned him around 1770, to decorate three rooms in Schönbrunn Palace: the so-called Bergl Rooms, the Gisela Apartment, the Goess Apartment and the Crown Prince Apartment.

• In 1773 he created the fresco room for the Kletzl family in Donaudorf Castle near Ybbs.

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