Johann Balthasar Bullinger (30 November 1713, Langnau am Albis – 31 March 1793, Zürich)^[1] was a Swiss landscape painter.

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Bullinger was born in Langnau am Albis, the son of Heinrich Bullinger, a clergyman.^[1] He was a pupil of Johann Melchior Füssli [de] and then of Johannes Simler, with whom he studied both painting and engraving.^[1] He then went to Venice, carrying a letter of introduction to Anton Maria Zanetti, who introduced him to Tiepolo, in whose studio he worked from 1732 until 1735.^[1] He first attempted historical painting, but then turned to landscapes,^[2] painting his first works in that genre in Steinbrugg in 1736. In 1737 he worked as a portraitist in Neuenburg. He spent the years between 1738 and 1741 in Amsterdam,^[1] where his work came under the influence of Dutch artists such as Both and Berchem.^[2] Bullinger also created the ceiling and wall paintings of the Zunfthaus zur Meisen, a guild house and present faience museum that was built at the Münsterhof plaza in Zürich in 1757.

He died at Zurich in 1793.^[2]

He etched several plates in a free, painterly style; they include:^[2]

• The Portrait of J. B. Bullinger; se ipse fec.
• A Frontispiece, with a number of Genii.
• Two Mountainous Landscapes, with figures.
• A set of fifty Landscapes; some from his own designs, and the others after J. F. Ermels and F. Meyer.
• A Head; after Le Brun; engraved for Lavater's Work.