Masters/Bernhard Plockhorst
The Good Shepherd, 19th century
Painting, reproduced as a color print
Image from a print published before 1923
A wing of the gallery
Bernhard Plockhorst
1825–1907 · Germany
A Berlin painter whose Good Shepherd and Christ blessing the children hung in homes and church windows across America.
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Lithographer and painter
Bernhard Plockhorst was born in Braunschweig on March 2, 1825, and trained first as a lithographer. He studied painting in Dresden, Leipzig and Munich, and in 1853 with Thomas Couture in Paris. He taught at the Weimar art school from 1866 to 1869 and spent most of his life in Berlin, where he died on May 18, 1907.
Sources: Wikipedia, Bernhard Plockhorst
Christ Blessing the Children, 19th century
Painting, shown in an 1899 photographic reproduction
Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-F-F00701-22)
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Pictures for the home
Plockhorst belonged to the late Nazarene movement of German religious painters. His Good Shepherd and Christ Blessing the Children were reproduced in enormous numbers, and stained-glass windows based on his Good Shepherd are in churches in Alabama, Oklahoma and Maryland.
Sources: Wikipedia, Bernhard Plockhorst
Victory over the Grave, before 1907
Painting
Location unknown
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Altarpieces
He painted altarpieces of the Resurrection for the cathedral of Marienwerder and for the Immanuelkirche in Berlin, which was consecrated in 1893. The Berlin altarpiece shows the risen Christ above the words “Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben”: I am the resurrection, and the life.
Sources: German Wikipedia, Bernhard Plockhorst · Kirchengeschichte Prenzlauer Berg: the Immanuelkirche altar painting · German Wikipedia, Immanuelkirche (Berlin)
The Resurrection (altarpiece), c. 1893
Oil, in a carved altar
Immanuelkirche, Berlin
The rooms
4 works, in the order of His life
Hung by the Gospel moment they show, across 3 rooms of the Gallery Walk.
43. The Good Shepherd
The Good Shepherd, 19th century
Painting, reproduced as a color print
Image from a print published before 1923
47. Suffer the Little Children
Christ Blessing the Children, 19th century
Painting, shown in an 1899 photographic reproduction
Photograph: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (RP-F-F00701-22)
64. He Is Risen
Victory over the Grave, before 1907
Painting
Location unknown
64. He Is Risen
The Resurrection (altarpiece), c. 1893
Oil, in a carved altar
Immanuelkirche, Berlin
See the originals
Where the works are
Immanuelkirche
Berlin, Germany
The Resurrection altarpiece. Source: Kirchengeschichte Prenzlauer Berg: the Immanuelkirche altar painting.
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