Robert Eberle
Illustration — Young shepherds with their flock Robert Eberle (22 July 1815 – 19 September 1862) was a German animal painter born in Meersburg, on Lake Constance.
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Robert Eberle

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- Born
- 1815 · Meersburg.
- Nationality
- Grand Duchy of Baden
- Occupation
- painter
- Teachers
- Johann Jakob Biedermann
- Languages
- German
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Illustration — Young shepherds with their flock Robert Eberle (22 July 1815 – 19 September 1862) was a German animal painter born in Meersburg, on Lake Constance.
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Robert Eberle (1815–1860) was a painter, a national of the Grand Duchy of Baden. The painter was born in Meersburg and died in Eberfing. Robert Eberle worked in Munich.
Languages used include German. Works are held at Bavarian State Painting Collections, Führermuseum and Print Collection, among others.
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Life
Life
Training under Johann Jakob Biedermann is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Munich. Work by Robert Eberle is recorded in the collections of Bavarian State Painting Collections, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Führermuseum and Print Collection.
He was first instructed by J.J. Bidermann at Constance, and afterwards went to Munich in 1830, where he studied from nature and the works of Van de Velde and Du Jardin. He spent three months in America (1848), and then settled at Eberfing, near Munich, where he died from an accidental pistol shot. He especially excelled in painting sheep, and there is a Shepherdess by him in the Modern Gallery at Munich.
Works
Works
• Shepherd with Herd Returning Home (1840) • Grain Harvest (1848) • Morning at Weinheim (1849) • Leaving the Alp (1849) • Frightened Sheep (1850) • Cattle Returning Home (1850) • Sheep Resting (1850) • Return from the Fields (1851) • Alp on Benedicten Wall (1852) • Goats Starting for Pasture (1852) • Sheep Resting at Noon (1852) • Evening in Pasture (1852) • Sheep Resting (1852) • Shepherd Boy (1852) • Sheep During Storm, Early Snow (1853) • Shepherd and Sheep (1854) • Shepherd's Dinner (1855) • Village; in the Morning (1857) • Peasant and Shepherd (1857) • Sheep Driven over Precipice by an Eagle (1858) • Village Scene (1859) • Swabian Shepherd with Herd (1860), Neue Pinakothek, Munich • Cows returning from Pasture (1861)

Ein Landmann mit seinem Schäfer redend. Öl auf Leinwand, 65,5 xx 86,5 cm. Signiert.
Robert Eberle

Robert Eberle - Schafhirt und Pfarrer - 8954 - Bavarian State Painting Collections
Robert Eberle
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1815
Robert Eberle was born on 22 July 1815.
1860
Robert Eberle died on 19 September 1860.
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Meersburg.
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Eberfing.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q317352: Robert Eberle
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