Christoph Thomas Scheffler

Christoph Thomas Scheffler was a German painter of the rococo period. He is best known for his frescoes.
Scheffler was born in Mainburg and learned the trade of a painter from his father Wolfgang Scheffler. Between 1719 and 1722, he worked as a journeyman for Cosmas Damian Asam. In 1722, he joined the Jesuit Order as a lay brother and painted several churches for the order. After he had left the order in 1728, he settled in Augsburg, where he died in 1756.
Image:Trier Sankt [Paulin BW 12.jpg|thumb|Frescoes of Christoph Thomas Scheffler in St. Paulinus church in Trier]
Among his works are the frescoes of the church in Heusenstamm, which was built by Balthasar Neumann for the Schönborn-Heusenstamm family, and those of the St. Paulinus' Church in Trier, funded by Elector Franz Georg [von Schönborn]. The frescoes in the chapel of the Deutschhaus in Mainz, painted by Scheffler, were destroyed during World War II.