Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard

Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard (born May 24, 1683 (date of baptism) in Nuremberg ; † April 14, 1755 (date of burial) there) was a German draftsman , engraver and painter .

Life

Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard: Two travelers at a waterfall

Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard was baptized on May 24, 1683 as a descendant of a Nuremberg artist family. The father Johann Andreas Gebhard, the brothers Jakob and Michael and the son Gottfried worked in Nuremberg as draftsmen, engravers and painters. From 1712 to 1714 Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard completed an apprenticeship as a copper etcher with Martin Tyroll. Between 1717 and 1750 Gebhard made drawings, engravings and paintings. He mainly depicted landscapes and ruins. Gebhard died in Nuremberg in April 1755. Only the date of the burial is known.

Gebhard published a series of eight landscape etchings with Johann Christoph Schmidthammer in Nuremberg in 1739. In addition, Gebard engraved some small-format landscapes. Gebhard's engravings are comparatively rare. In 1808 Füßli only knew seven sheets of Gebhard, which he accused of being volatile and crude. From the years 1717 to 1719 several unsigned copper engravings based on drawings by Gebhard have survived, which thematize the victory over the Turks at Belgrade. From April 2, 2011 to March 31, 2012, a copper engraving by Gebhard was presented in the exhibition “The Art of Enlightenment” in the Chinese National Museum in Beijing.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Rudolph Füßli: General Artist Lexicon , or: Brief message about the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, copper engravers, art foundries, steel cutters etc. etc. In addition to the attached lists of teachers and students ... Orell and Füßli, Zurich 1808 , Keyword: Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard.
2. ↑ Copy from kunstaspekte.de , accessed on February 20, 2013

Web links

• Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard in the Virtual Kupferstichkabinett [1]
• Wolfgang Magnus Gebhard at the Harvard Art Museum [2]
• Ex Igne Triumphus, or Fiery Triumph, after a drawing by Gebhard [3]