The German painter Peter Baumgartner received his first art training at Jakob Filser at the Munich drawing school. He then studied with Joseph Anton Rhomberg at the Polytechnic and later with Hermann Anschütz and Johann Georg Hiltensperger at the Art Academy. From 1857 he took private lessons from the Academy Professor Carl Theodor Piloty and was to 1861 employed at his eponymous school. With his patron, the young artist went on a long study trip to France, Flanders, Austria and in the Rhineland.
The painter died at the age of 77 after a stroke in Munich. He was buried in the Munich North Cemetery, his grave was abandoned in 1981.