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Eduard von Gebhardt, Bärtiger Mann im Profil characterful study of a bearded man in half-length profile with a lowered gaze, a briskly captured impasto study in muted colours that recreates the facial features with an energetic brushstroke, Oil on card, incised signature "E v Gebhardt" and dated "1914" upper left, annotation on provenance with reference to the Rhenish industrialist family Henkel on the reverse, minor retouches, minor early shrinkage cracks in places, modern frame, dimensions approx. 24 x 17.5 cm. Artist's note: actually Eduard Karl Franz von Gebhardt, German portrait and history painter (1838 Järva-Jaani/Estonia [Eng.: Sankt Johannis] to 1925 Düsseldorf), 1855-57 studied at the St. Petersburg Academy, 1857-58 studied at the University of St. Petersburg. Petersburg, 1857-58 on study trips through Belgium and Holland, 1858-59 studied at the Karlsruhe Academy under Ludwig Des Coudres, followed by study trips to Vienna, Munich and Tyrol, settled in Düsseldorf from 1860, master pupil and friend of Wilhelm Sohn (1829-1899), member from 1866, later an honorary member of the Düsseldorf artists' association "Malkasten", 1873-75 teacher and 1875-94 professor of history painting at the Düsseldorf Academy, maintained a student studio from 1874, study trip to Italy in the 1880s, exhibited at the world exhibitions in Vienna (1873), Paris (1878 and 1900), St. Louis (1904) and Brussels (1904). Louis (1904) and Brussels (1910) as well as the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, received a gold medal here in 1918, 1885-1911 representative of the Düsseldorf Academy in the Prussian State Art Commission, honorary citizen of the city of Düsseldorf, honoured with the Order Pour le mérite for Sciences and Arts, appointed Real Privy Councillor and Excellency, 1905 honorary doctorate from Strasbourg University and 1918 honorary doctorate from Bonn University, honorary member of the academies of Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Antwerp, Brussels and Vienna, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Mülfarth, Müller-Singer, Boetticher, Dressler, Seubert, Bénézit, Müller-Klunzinger, Ries, Bruckmann "Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule" and Wikipedia.

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Eduard von Gebhardt, Bärtiger Mann im Profil

Estimate 120 - 180 EUR
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