Georg Josef Bernhard Schäfer

Georg Josef Bernhard Schäfer (born August 20, 1855 in Karlstadt , † November 26, 1912 in Munich ) was a German painter .

Life

Schäfer was born in Karlstadt am Main in 1855 as the son of an economist. He started drawing at an early age and decided to become a painter before finishing elementary school . In 1871 he moved to Munich and attended the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule . Two years later he moved to the Polytechnic School , where he passed a state examination in drawing and modeling.

In 1875 he was accepted into the class of antiquities at the Royal Art Academy in Munich and studied Christian art with Andreas Müller . A year later he started teaching at the Royal Building School and was appointed professor in 1906 .

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Schäfer worked primarily as a history and church painter . One of his best-known works is the overpainting of three baroque ceiling paintings of the Church of St. Kilian in Bad Heilbrunn in 1882. He also designed frescoes and altarpieces in Zagreb , Bad Brückenau , Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld , Neustadt , Weilbach , Aurach and Pullach . He also worked as a genre and portrait painter.

literature

Shepherd, Georg Josef Bernhard . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 550 .
Sonja Baranow: Schäfer, Georg Josef Bernhard . In: Horst Ludwig (Hrsg.): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst . Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer . Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 18f.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 03124 Joseph Schäfer, matriculation book 1841-1884 , Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on August 11, 2020.
^ ^A ^b Sonja Baranow: Schäfer, Georg Josef Bernhard . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer . Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 18f.

personal data
SURNAME	Shepherd, Georg Josef Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Shepherd, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Karlstadt
DATE OF DEATH	November 26, 1912
Place of death	Munich

[adbk-1] 03124 Joseph Schäfer, matriculation book 1841-1884 , Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on August 11, 2020.

[MM19-2] A ^b Sonja Baranow: Schäfer, Georg Josef Bernhard . In: Horst Ludwig (Ed.): Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 4: Saffer – Zwengauer . Bruckmann, Munich 1983, p. 18f.