Johann Gebhard

High altar painting of the Assumption of Mary in Reichenbach am Regen Monastery (around 1750)

Johann Gebhard (born July 1, 1676 in Velthurns / South Tyrol , † February 13, 1756 in Regensburg ) was a painter of the Bavarian Baroque and Rococo .

biography

Together with his teacher, Franz Metz , Johann Gebhard came from Austria to the monastery under Regensburg . In Regensburg, Johann Gebhard came into contact with the Asam brothers . Under her direction he painted the frescoes in the side aisles of the church of the prince abbey of Sankt Emmeram around 1733 .

Johann Gebhard's sons were the painter Otto Gebhard and the barrel painter Andreas Gebhard. With some works it is controversial whether they can be ascribed to Johann Gebhard or his son Otto (or both together). This is especially true for the frescoes and oil paintings with the signature "JO Gebhard" . The tombs of the members of the Gebhard family of painters have been preserved in the Dech Betten cemetery (today a district of Regensburg).

plant

• Lengenfeld : Pictures of the side altars in the parish church (early 18th century)
• Waldsassen Monastery : Oil paintings on the ceiling of the two middle side chapels of the monastery church
• Parish church St. Rupert in Regensburg: side altar leaves (St. Walpurga and St. Joseph) in the parish church of the St. Emmeram monastery (1710/20)
• Checking Abbey : Image of the Magdalen Altar in the transept of the abbey church (1710)
• Hellring : Pictures of the side altars of the pilgrimage church (1711)
• Ensdorf Monastery : High altar picture of the monastery church with St. James (1711)
• Kelheim : High altar painting with the Assumption of Mary in the parish church (1711; today in the former Franciscan church)
• Kelheim: High altar picture with the seer Johannes on Patmos of the hospital church (1713)
• Haselbach : Oil painting St. Sebastian in the parish church (1714)
• Abensberg : Altarpieces of the Carmelite Monastery Church (1715–1717)
• Checking Abbey : Ceiling frescoes in the abbey church (1715–1719)
• Trinity Church Kappl near Waldsassen : high altar picture with Holy Trinity in the pilgrimage church (1716)
• Matting : side altarpiece St. Vitus in the parish church (1719)
• Birnbach bei Schierling : High altar painting in the parish church (around 1720) attributed to Johann Gebhard
• Weißenohe Monastery : frescoes of the monastery church (1722/23; not preserved) and pictures for two side altars (1725)
• St. Andreas (Pürkwang) (now part of the community of Wildenberg ): high altar picture with crucifixion of the apostle Andreas (1724)
• Plain in the Upper Palatinate: high altar picture Martyrdom of St. George in the parish church (1726)
• Offenstetten : High altar picture with the martyrdom of St. Vitus in the parish church (1727)
• Oberulrain : The altarpiece shows the martyrdom of St. Achatius
• Amberg : Ceiling fresco in the library of the former Jesuit college (1727)
• Frauenzell Abbey : ceiling frescoes in the refectory (1729)
• Pielenhofen Monastery : monumental cycle with Postel pictures in the monastery church attributed to Johann Gebhard (around 1730)
• Michelfeld : High altar picture of St. Leonhard in the cemetery church (1732)
• Sankt Emmeram Monastery in Regensburg: painting of the side aisles of the monastery church with the help of his son Otto Gebhard (around 1733)
• Deusmauer (today part of Velburg ): high altar picture of the parish church with St. Margareta (1733)
• Alteglofsheim Castle : ceiling fresco and overhanging pictures in the red room of the castle (1734)
• Mintraching : Side altarpiece of Maria Immaculate in the parish church (1730/40)
• Pettenreuth : ceiling fresco of the parish church together with his son Otto Gebhard (around 1740)
• Breitenbrunn : former altarpiece of the Michaelskapelle with the fourteen helpers in need together with his son Otto Gebhard (1743; today in the rectory)
• Reichenbach am Regen monastery : high altar image of the Assumption of Mary in the monastery church (around 1750)
• Cham : ceiling frescoes of the parish church of St. Jakob together with his son Otto Gebhard (1750)

literature

• Rudolf Reiser : Gebhard, Johann. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 242 ( digitized version ).
• Hans Wutzlhofer , Johann Gebhard vonprüfunging. An old Bavarian painter from the Baroque period , Munich 1934.
• Alois J. Weichselgartner, The Gebhard vonprüfunging family of painters. In: Scenarios of the Rococo 1969.

Also on the works of Johann Gebhard:

• Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate , edited by Jolanda Drexler and Achim Hubel with the assistance of Astrid Debold-Kritter u. a., Munich / Berlin 1991.
• Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria II: Lower Bavaria , edited by Michael Brix , with contributions by Franz Bischoff, Gerhard Hackl and Volker Liedke, Munich / Berlin 1988.

Web links

Commons : Johann Gebhard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wilhelm Weidinger:  Gebhard, Johann . Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)