Eduard von Gebhardt

Franz Karl Eduard Gebhardt, also: Eduard von Gebhardt, ( born June 13, 1838 in Järva -Jaani, today Järva county, Estonia, † February 3, 1925 in Dusseldorf ) was a German painter and professor of art at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf.

Life

Gebhardt visited since his 16th year for three years, the Academy of St. Petersburg and then took two years partly traveling, partly in Karlsruhe, where he attended art school. In 1860 he came to Dusseldorf, where he became a student of William son and with the same kind of support was that he decided to stay in Dusseldorf.

Gebhardt in 1873 professor at the Düsseldorf Academy and trained as such, many students approach. His students included such as the German -Brazilian painter Wilhelm Techmeier and the German church painter Heinrich Nüttgens, Louis Feldman, Bruno Ehrich and Wilhelm Döringer. Gebhardt had the large golden medal of the Berlin Art Exhibition.

Eduard von Gebhardt is an honorary citizen of the city of Dusseldorf.

Work

His inclination was already judged by his education, from the beginning on religious subjects, but he wanted to give to religious painting, in connection with the realistic view of art of his time, a national content. He treated the biblical scenes from the standpoint of the Dutch and German masters of the 15th and 16th century by not only the costume and the appearance of the people of that era, he gave the figures, but they also characterized by the artistic patterns of the time.

What he thus gained in depth, simplicity and truth of feeling, he gave in beauty and ideality of the representation, which is why his creations have found equally fierce opponents as zealous admirers. Despite the great technical mastery over which Gebhardt commanded his naivety of the presentation was not originally, but only anempfunden, and it therefore did not succeed to penetrate the nation to which remained incomprehensible searched his expression.

He belonged to the preferred selection of contemporary artists who proposed the " Komite for collecting and assessing Stollwerck images " the Cologne Chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to commission for drafts.

Works

His works are divided into religious paintings and illustrations from the Reformation period. The most important images of the first group are:

• Christ's entry into Jerusalem (1863 ),
• The Raising of Jairus's daughter (1864 )
• The rich man and the poor Lazarus ( 1865), now in the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
• Christ on the Cross (1866, Tallinn Cathedral, 1884 repeats )
• Supper (1870, National Gallery in Berlin; main work in which the realistic tendencies of the painter are united happiest with the dignity of the religious motif ),
• Crucifixion (1873, Kunsthalle in Hamburg )
• Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus (1876 ),
• Ascension of Christ (1881, National Gallery in Berlin, major work ) and
• Lamentation of Christ's body (1884 ).

From his pictures from the Reformation period are: Colloquy, the reformer at work, German housewife convent school.

Other significant works include the painting of the lay refectory of the monastery Loccum at Wunstorf of 1884-1891, and the obtained only in fragments painting of the Peace Church of Düsseldorf from 1899 to 1907. Kaiser Wilhelm II was present at the consecration of the church in 1907.