Christian David Gebauer

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

Gebauer was born at Nowa Sol 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.