Joseph Bernhardt

Joseph Nepomuk Bernhardt (born September 15, 1805 in Theuern near Amberg , † March 12, 1885 in Munich ) was a German portrait painter .

Life

Bernhardt probably completed an apprenticeship as a coat of arms painter before 1820. Between 1820 and 1827 he studied history painting at the Art Academy in Munich . From 1825 he worked as a music teacher, from 1830 to 1837 as a student in the studio of the court painter Joseph Karl Stieler in Munich. In the 1830s Bernhardt completed a stay in Paris. There he was a student in Paul Delaroche's studio . In 1837 he opened his own painting school in Munich, from which the painters Joseph Resch and Richard Lauchert emerged . From the 1840s, Bernhardt held numerous honorary positions and received awards from Prussia and Bavaria. In 1865 he took a position as a castle administratorAschaffenburg . From 1883 until his death he was a pensioner at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich.

Works (selection)

• King Maximilian II in coronation regalia (Ingolstadt, Bavarian Army Museum)
• Portrait of Richard Wagner (private collection, Feustel family)
• Portrait of King Ludwig II (Edenkoben / Palatinate, Villa Ludwigshöhe)
• Portraits of members of the family v. Ponickau (private property)

literature

• Hyacinth Holland :  Bernhardt, Josef . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 430-432.
• Hyacinth Holland: Bernhardt, Josef . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 3 : Bassano – Bickham . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, p. 457 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dankmar Trier: Bernhard, Josef . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 9, Saur, Munich a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-598-22749-3 , pp. 594 f.
• Lisa Hackmann: Bernhardt, Joseph . In: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-029057-8 , pp. 23–24.