Asam (lived 18th century)

Family of German baroque artists and decorators. They included Hans Georg (d. 1696), whose work consisted of frescoes and oil-paintings, and his two sons Cosmas Damian (c. 1686–1742), a painter, and Aegidius Quirinus (d. 1746), a sculptor.

They worked together on the churches of Innsbruck, Munich, Schleissheim, and Mannheim, producing illusionistic and ornamental work in Italian high baroque manner. Cosmo Damian's two sons, Franz Erasmus (1720–1794) and Engelbrecht, were both painters.