Johann Baptist Heinefetter

Johann Baptist Heinefetter (2 April 1815 – 4 November 1902) was a German Romantic painter.

Life Heinefetters was born as the child of Jewish parents in Mainz. From the union of his father Christian Heinefetter (born 1772) and his mother Christine (née Seelandt) further children emerged, so the sisters Sabine, Eva, Fatime, Kathinka, Klara and Nanette, who were all opera singers. Together with Adolph Heinefetter the whole family took part in the opera The Magic Flute in Staatstheater Mainz in 1826.

In Munich, Heinefetter became a pupil of the war artist Dietrich Monten.