Bernhard Plockhorst
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Born | Bernhard Plockhorst 2 March 1825 |
Died | 18 May 1907 Berlin, Germany | (aged 82)
Nationality | German |
Known for | Painting, graphic artist |
Bernhard Plockhorst (March 2, 1825 – May 18, 1907) was a German painter and graphic artist. In Germany, Plockhorst is mainly known to experts today, whereas his pictures are still very popular in the United States and their reproductions can be found in many American homes and churches.
Life
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Plockhorst was born in
Work
Plockhorst was a member of the late Nazarene movement, a German Romantic art school (together with other German Protestant painters such as Karl Gottfried Pfannschmidt and Heinrich Ferdinand Hoffmann). Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, they had recourse to Medieval and religious art topics.
Religious topics
In 1872, Plockhorst exhibited a painting which was soon regarded as his chief work, “The Battle of archangel Michael with Satan for the body of Moses” (today in the Städtisches Museum, Cologne). His next major work was the altar painting “The Resurrection of Christ” for the cathedral of Marienburg, painted by order of the Prussian ministry of education and cultural affairs.
Further paintings showed “Christ taking his leave of his Mother”, “Christ on his way to Emmaus”, “Christ appearing to Maria Magdalena”, “The exposure of Moses”, “The finding of Moses”, “Let the children come to me” (also called “Jesus blessing the children”), “Luther on Christmas Eve” (1887) and “The adulteress before Christ” (the latter formerly in Moscow, gallery Löwenstein).
Plockhorst's painting The Guardian Angel (1886), showing an angel and two little children close to an abyss, was reproduced as a color lithography in thousands of copies and greatly influenced the later pictures of guardian angels.
The glass windows of several U.S. American churches show motifs taken from Plockhorst, e. g. "The Good Shepherd" in the Roman Catholic
Plockhorst's oil painting “
Portraits
Plockhorst painted a portrait of the musician
Illustrations
For the books of the Tauchnitz publishing house, Plockhorst drew different title-pages and frontispieces, e.g. for Three tales for Girls by the British author Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and for Charlotte M. Yonge's book The little Duke or Richard the Fearless. Ben Sylvester’s Word (1861). His illustrations for the following two books became very successful,
- From Bethlehem to Golgotha. The Life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ according to the four gospels by Karl Gerok (1881);
- Psalter and harp. New jubilee edition by Philipp Spitta, including 24 full-page illustrations, the portrait of Spitta, further illustrations and 42 initials.
Gallery
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The Good Shepherd, 19th century by German Artist Bernhard Plockhorst
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Christ Blessing the Children, 19th century by German Artist Bernhard Plockhorst
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Victor over the Grave, 19th-century altarpiece by German Artist Bernhard Plockhorst
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The Consoling Christ, 19th century by German Artist Bernhard Plockhorst
References
- ^ Pease, Grayson (2020-11-18). Bains, David (ed.). "The Good Shepherd Window". Magic City Religion. Archived from the original on 2020-11-19. Retrieved 2020-11-21.
- ^ Thomas N. Stephens, Wreck Report for 'Sorata'[usurped], Board of Trade, 17 January 1881, Marine Board Offices, Port Adelaide. Accessed 18 April 2013.
- ^ "Professor Francis Rouleaux", 18 October 1879, in Australian Town and Country Journal p. 737. Accessed 18 April 2013.
- ^ Caroline Jordan, ""Fletcher's of Collins Street"". Archived from the original on October 1, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2016., in The La Trobe Journal, State Library of Victoria, Australia, no. 75, Autumn 2005, pp.77-93, hosted at www.archive.org. Accessed 18 April 2013.
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Written sources
- Article on Bernhard Plockhorst, in: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon, vol. 13 (1895), p. 203.