Otto Gebhard

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Otto Gebhard (born February 13, 1703 in Regensburg ; † March 8, 1773 ibid) was a painter of the Bavarian Rococo .

biography

Otto Gebhard was the oldest son and student of the painter Johann Gebhard . As a painter and fresco artist , he was mainly active in Regensburg and its wider surroundings ( Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate ). It is controversial whether the works signed with "JO Gebhard (t)" can be ascribed to his father alone ( JO as an abbreviation for Jo [hann] ) or whether they should identify the works in question as being carried out jointly by father Johann and son Otto. Like the other members of the Gebhard family of painters, Otto was buried in the Dech Betten cemetery (now a district of Regensburg), where the tombs have been preserved to this day.

Work (selection)

Fresco in Reichenbach Monastery
  • St. Emmeram Monastery in Regensburg: Employee of his father Johann Gebhard painting the side aisles of the monastery church (around 1733)
  • Hellring : ceiling frescoes in the pilgrimage church of St. Ottilia (1735); Oil sketch of the fresco in the nave has been preserved
  • Waldeck near Tirschenreuth : ceiling painting of the parish church (around 1740)
  • Pettenreuth : ceiling fresco of the parish church together with his father Johann Gebhard (around 1740)
  • Sankt Mang monastery in Regensburg / Stadtamhof: ceiling fresco in the choir of the collegiate church attributed to Otto Gebhard (around 1740)
  • Hainsacker near Regensburg: frescoes of the parish church attributed to Johann Gebhard, probably together with his father Johann Gebhard (around 1740)
  • Reichenbach Monastery : Wall and ceiling frescoes in the monastery church (choir room), the monks' choir and the sacristy (1742–1747); Drafts received for the two main pictures of the nave and one of the murals in the monks' choir
  • Breitenbrunn : former altarpiece of the Michaelskapelle with the fourteen helpers in need together with his father Johann Gebhard (1743; today in the rectory)
  • Pilgrimage Church of St. Salvator in Donaustauf : ceiling painting with miracles of Jesus (1743/45) attributed to Otto Gebhard; receive a draft for the ceiling design
  • Allersburg near Hohenburg in the Upper Palatinate: Otto Gebhard's ceiling fresco (around 1745) has been preserved under the Nazarene ceiling painting in the nave of the parish church; on the south wall a fresco with the Annunciation by Otto Gebhard; a draft for the design of the ceiling has been preserved
  • Cham : ceiling frescoes of the parish church of St. Jakob together with his father Johann Gebhard (1750)
  • Wolkering : 1954 exposed ceiling painting in the parish church (around 1750) attributed to Otto Gebhard
  • Hohenburg in der Oberpfalz: ceiling painting in the choir of the parish church St. Jakob and fresco on the organ gallery (around 1750)
  • Laaber near Regensburg: only Gebhard's draft of the ceiling fresco in the parish church has survived (around 1750); Painting of the side altar with Mary as Queen of the Saints in the manner of Otto Gebhard (around 1750)
  • Michelfeld Monastery : Altarpiece Triumph of St. Benedict (around 1750)
  • Regensburg Old Chapel: Altarpiece with St. Eucharist
  • Willenhofen near Parsberg : in the parsonage, two designs ascribed to Otto Gebhard for the non-preserved ceiling frescoes in the parish church (after 1750)
  • Mockersdorf near Neustadt am Kulm : frescoes in the parish church (1751)
  • Pullenreuth near Tirschenreuth : ceiling fresco in the parish church choir (1751)
  • Frauenzell Monastery : ceiling frescoes in the monastery church (1752)
  • Ensdorf monastery : ceiling painting with the h. Benedict in one of the rooms of the monastery (1752)
  • Stiftspfarrkirche Sankt Kassian in Regensburg : the central ceiling painting in the nave with Peter and Kassian as fishers of men (1754) in color and composition by Otto Gebhard rather than Gottfried Bernhard Göz, who executed the other frescoes in the church
  • Laaberberg : ceiling frescoes of the parish church (1755)
  • Hemau : four frescoes in the parish church choir (1755)
  • Dominican convent Regensburg : ceiling frescoes in the monastery church Heilig Kreuz and in the nuns choir (1757)
  • Pfaffenberg : ceiling frescoes of the parish church (1757)
  • Hohenschambach : ceiling frescoes of the parish church (1760) commissioned by the monastery checking
  • Laberweinting : frescoes in the parish church (1760)
  • Beratzhausen near Regensburg : ceiling frescoes in the parish church (1764)
Ceiling fresco parish church St. Rupert (Regensburg)
  • Parish church Sankt Rupert in Regensburg : wall and ceiling frescoes in the church belonging to the monastery Sankt Emmeram (1765)
  • Sulzbach-Rosenberg : Pictures on the main altar and on the left side altar (1765/66) of the former Salesian Church of St. Hedwig
  • Viechtach : ceiling frescoes of the parish church (1765)
  • Walderbach Monastery : ceiling painting in the cloister's ballroom (1765/70)
  • Kötzting : Gebhard's ceiling frescos in the parish church (1769) have not been preserved
  • Zant (municipality of Ursensollen ): attribution of the ceiling paintings of the branch church (2nd third of the 18th century) to Otto Gebhard considered

literature

Also on the works of Otto 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.

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personal data
SURNAME Gebhard, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Rococo painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1773
Place of death regensburg