Johann Ignaz Cimbal (1722 – 1795)

• Was a Czech-born Austrian painter and etcher.
• He was born in Bílovec in Moravian-Silesian Region.

• His father was Matthias Zimbal.

• As a boy he came to Vienna and stayed in the monastery of the Brothers of Mercy on today's Taborstrasse.

• In 1742 his name first appears in the records of the Vienna Academy of Arts, where he enrolled that year to study painting until he graduated in 1753.

• Cimbal became friends with the painter Felix Ivo Leicher and the sculptor Raymond Sieß.

• Sieß sponsored some of Cimbal's children at their baptisms.

• He worked for the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God practically until the end of his life.

• His two sons, the painters Johann Cimbal and Jacob Cimbal, later worked for the same client. 
• The most remarkable set of paintings created for clients from the Czech lands can be found in Kuks, in the local hospital and church of the Brothers of Mercy.

• He married in 1760 Maria Clara Josefa Oblasser.

• He left most of his work in Vienna,  Lower Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and the territory of today's Austrian Burgenland. 

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