Franz Sales Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg

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Franz Sales Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg (born January 29, 1895 in Schwandorf ; † February 17, 1969 in Westerbuchberg , Übersee am Chiemsee ) was a German painter who worked in Chiemgau .

Life

Gebhardt was born the son of a master potter . The parents owned the house next to the steeple of the parish church of St. Jakob.

Before beginning his studies at the Munich School of Applied Arts in 1920, he had stays abroad as a hotel specialist and while a prisoner of war in England. During his subsequent studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, he sold his first pictures. In 1927 the painter spent a year in Spain , where he was heavily influenced by the Spanish art of the Baroque and Mannerism . After returning to Munich , his first exhibition took place at the “jury free”. Commissions for portraits and commercial art followed.

Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg married the sculptor Käthe Seele and moved with her to her hometown Braunschweig , where he took on commercial tasks in the family's business. In 1934 the couple bought a farm on the Westerbuchberg near Übersee am Chiemsee. During the Second World War he worked as a war correspondent in Russia, southern France and Istria.

In 1940, 1942 and 1943 his pictures were on view at the Great German Art Exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich, and in 1940 at the supplementary exhibition . At the exhibition German Artists and the SS in 1944 in Breslau , the picture “Übersee” was exhibited.

Towards the end of the war he was briefly captured by the Americans , but soon returned to the Chiemsee . In addition to his artistic activity, he ran his farm there. He became a member of the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft and took part in the annual Great Munich Art Exhibition in the Haus der Kunst.

At the beginning of the 1950s, he leased the farm to devote himself entirely to painting . He created landscape paintings of the Chiemsee area, still lifes, self-portraits and religious pictures, and in the 1960s also a series of illustrated monotypes. In 1964 he was honored with the Nordgau Culture Prize of the city of Amberg in the “ Fine Arts ” category.

The estate is managed by the sons Fritz and Peter Gebhardt-Seele in Prien - Siggenham in the Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg gallery .

Exhibitions

  • 1957 Rome
  • 1958 Milan
  • 1959 Large art exhibition in Munich
  • 1962 Large art exhibition in Munich
  • 1967 Exhibition of the city of Regensburg with catalog
  • 1971 Art Association Regensburg
  • 1995 Bavarian. Landesbank - Gallery Munich Prien
  • 2003–2004 exhibition with approx. 100 works in Galerie Westerbuchberg

literature

  • Bruckmann: The painter Franz S. Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg by Anton Sailer. artprice, davenport
  • Rainer Zimmermann: Expressive realism. Painting of the Lost Generation. Hirmer, Munich 1994, p. 375.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The estate receives its own gallery , Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , May 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg, Franz Sales
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gebhardt-Westerbuchberg, Franz S; Gebhardt, Franz Sales; Gebhardt, Franz S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwandorf
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1969
Place of death Westerbuchberg