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Johann Friedrich Overbeck, (born July 3, 1789, Imperial Free City of Lübeck—died Nov. 12, 1869, Rome), Romantic painter of Christian religious subjects, who was leader of a group of German artists known as the Nazarenes, or Lucas Brotherhood (Lukasbund).

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (* 3. Juli 1789 in Lübeck; † 12. November 1869 in Rom) war ein deutscher Maler, Zeichner und Illustrator. Er gilt als Protagonist der nazarenischen Kunst. Mit seinem Namensvetter und Künstlerkollegen August Friedrich Overbeck ist er nicht verwandt.

Title: Head of a Bearded Man. Artist: Johann Friedrich Overbeck (German, Lübeck 1789–1869 Rome) Date: ca. 1820–25. Medium: Black chalk. Dimensions: sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 13/16 in. (23.8 x 19.8 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: Purchase, Charles-Noël van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009. Accession Number: 2009.203.

Overbeck’s use of a modern tool—the graphite pencil—to imitate the effects of an archaic technique is emblematic of his lifelong revivalist tendencies. A founding member of the Lukasbund in Vienna, and a leading figure of its successor group based in Rome, the Nazarenes, Overbeck devoted his entire career to recovering the artistic aims ...

Artist: Johann Friedrich Overbeck (German, Lübeck 1789–1869 Rome) Date: 1848. Medium: Black fabricated crayon (possibly early conté crayon) with touches of brown fabricated crayon and thin brown watercolor wash; framing line in black fabricated crayon. Dimensions: 18 1/16 x 22 3/4 in. (45.9 x 57.8 cm) Classification: Drawings