Christian David Gebauer

Portrait of Gebauer, ca. 1800

Winter landscape with Brabrand Church, ca. 1831, now in the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

Christian David Gebauer (15 October 1777 – 15 September 1831) was an animal painter and an etcher.

Gebauer was born at Nowa Sól in Silesia, and educated at the Copenhagen Academy from 1800 under Lorentzen. He devoted himself to landscapes as well as animals, executing the latter at first in Indian ink, but afterwards in oil. In 1813 he proceeded to Dresden, where he took to drawing, painting, and etching military scenes, and in 1815 was received into the Academy there. Later in his life he established a school of design at Aarhus, where he died in 1831. His pictures of horses and dogs, several of which are in the Copenhagen Gallery, are among his best works.

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This article incorporates text from the article "GEBAUER, Christian David" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.