Bernhard von Neher

Karl Joseph Bernard of Neher (January 16, 1806 in Biberach an der Riss, † 17 January 1886 in Stuttgart) was a German painter.

Karl Joseph Bernard of Neher

Neher received his training in Stuttgart in 1822 by Johann Heinrich Dannecker and Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch, especially at the Art Academy in Munich, by Peter von Cornelius, and then spent four years in Rome, where he also and contacts within the Nazarene Friedrich Overbeck and Philipp Veit used. Here he painted the Raising of the youth of Nain (State Gallery of Stuttgart). Returned in 1832 to Munich, where he led the Isartor the fresco: "entry of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria after the battle of Ampfing" from.

Fresco on Isartor in Munich: "Triumph of Ludwig of Bavaria after his victorious battle against the Hapsburg Frederick the Handsome at Mühldorf in 1322," Bernard of Neher, 1835

In 1836 he received a call to Weimar to two rooms of the grand ducal palace there, with murals to poetry by Friedrich Schiller and Goethe, decorate, where he worked a total of 11 years. In 1841 he was appointed director of the Art Academy in Leipzig. In 1846 he accepted an appointment to Stuttgart as a professor at the Royal School of Art, 1854, he became its director.

Here he painted the large oil paintings:

Descent from the Cross (State Gallery of Stuttgart),
The Crucifixion (for the Catholic Church Ravensburg) and the smaller oil paintings:
the spring (in the New Castle in Stuttgart)
the sacrifice of Abraham,
Christ blessing the children,
Abraham with the Angels as well as some portraits.

Above all, it designs employed in large glass paintings, which he has six of the Collegiate Church of Stuttgart, three for the chapel in the Old Palace) and one each in the Leonard's Church (Stuttgart), the Greek Chapel in New Castle and the St. John's Church, all of Stuttgart, executed. These noble, heartfelt compositions are his most distinguished achievements.

Window in the Collegiate Church of Stuttgart

1841-1852: Three windows in the choir will be provided with its stained-glass windows (foundation of King Wilhelm I)

Topics:

Birth
Crucifixion and Burial
Resurrection

1865, 1867 and 1887 Neher designs the remaining stained glass windows with the theme "Past and future of the Christian Church":

Pentecost (Peter preaching, baptizing Paul)
Judgment Day
Faith, hope, love and adoration of the Lamb ("Kapffenster")

1852 awarded him the King of Württemberg, the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, [1] with the staff of the needle was connected.

The State Gallery in Stuttgart in 1878 bought the boxes and sketches for his murals and stained glass windows, which were still available. In 1879 he resigned from the leadership of the School of Arts and died on 17 January 1886 in Stuttgart and was buried at the cemetery in Prague, Stuttgart.
Literature

Gauss, Ulrike; holes, Kurt Karl Joseph Bernard of Neher 1806 - 1886 (catalog and Impl), watercolors and drawings, 1971, Biberach Publishing Printing, Exhibition of 29 August - 3 October 1971
August Wintterlin: Neher, Bernhard von. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 381-387.

Notes and references

↑ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Württemberg 1877, page 26

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