Konrad Eberhard

The Eberhard brothers, 1822 (portrait by Johann Anton Ramboux )

Konrad Eberhard, 1819 (drawing by Theodor Rehbenitz - Behnhaus )

Konrad Eberhard (born November 25, 1768 in Hindelang , † March 12, 1859 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and painter .

Career

Eberhard and his brother Franz made devotional pictures , carved crucifixes , images of saints, tabernacles etc. at an early age . Later he worked in the Munich workshop of Roman Anton Boos and visited Rome in 1806, where he expanded his skills as a student of Antonio Canova . His first significant works were classicistic , such as his Muse ( Glyptothek ), his Faun , his Leda (both in Nymphenburg Palace , where the colossal group Endymion and Diana, brought together by Amor , are located). This work earned him a professorship at the Munich Academy in 1816 . In 1819 he succeeded in acquiring the Barberinische Faun , one of the main works in the Munich Glyptothek, on behalf of the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig in Rome.

The classicist tomb for Princess Maximiliane Josepha Caroline of Bavaria was created between 1821 and 1825. The architectural form goes back to a design by Leo von Klenze .

Later he turned to medieval art, but exchanged the tradition of his family and homeland for medieval art in Italy and became one of the most fanatical religious enthusiasts among the Roman romantics. His grave monument for Maximiliane Josepha Caroline von Bayern (1810–1821), the youngest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph , in the transept of the Theatine Church in Munich is his last important classicist work (1825). Afterwards he preferred to treat religious objects, all of which exude the spirit of medieval works of art. In 1837 he took part in the Prussian mixed marriages dispute with the lithograph “Triumph of the Holy See and the Church” when the Archbishop of Cologne, Clemens August Droste zu Vischering , got involved in a fundamental conflict over the question of the religious education of children from marriages of different denominations the Prussian state.

His main works are the two grave monuments of the bishops Johann Michael Sailer and Georg Michael Wittmann in the Regensburg Cathedral . Eberhard also preserved his artistry and proselyte zeal in his house altar paintings, but great versatility in his poems and musical compositions. In recent years he has destroyed all of his non-religious work. He died in Munich on March 12, 1859.

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  Amor and the Muse , 1807–1811, Neue Pinakothek in Munich

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  Diana

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  Endymion

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  Bust of Empress Maria Theresa , in the Walhalla near Regensburg (1811)

family

His brother Franz (* 1767 ) took part in his work several times, but also created independent works, namely smaller ones, reliefs etc. made of alabaster. He died blind on December 18, 1836.

literature

• Friedrich Pecht :  Eberhard, Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 571 f.
• Konrad Eberhard . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 5, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 280–281.
• Christian Arnold: Konrad Eberhard 1768–1859, sculptor and painter. Life and works of an Allgäu artist family (=  publications of the Swabian research community at the Commission for Bavarian State History, Series 1, Studies on the History of Bavarian Swabia . Volume 8 ). Augsburg 1964, DNB  450144364 ( table of contents [accessed October 4, 2013]).

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