Switbert Lobisser was an Austrian Benedictine monk, painter and woodcutter.

Leo Lobisser grew up in Tiffen, where his father was an elementary school teacher until his death in 1886. From 1890 to 1898 Lobisser was in the boarding school of the Marianum episcopal seminary for boys in Klagenfurt, where he graduated from high school in 1898. In 1899 he entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul in Lavanttal as a novice , where he adopted the monastery name Switbert. He studied theology in Salzburg and Rome and was ordained a priest in 1903. From 1904 to 1908 he studied at the Art Academy in Vienna, and from 1908 he taught at the Stiftsgymnasium in St. Paul as an art teacher. The excursions he undertook with his students were Paul Hörbiger described in his autobiography. Gustav Manker was also one of his students in St. Paul. From 1914 Lobisser was also forest manager of the monastery.

Lobisser only emerged as an artist in the 1920s, initially with murals in the seminary chapel of the grammar school and in the winter refectory of the monastery. From 1923 he turned to woodcuts. In the 1920s he also began a relationship with his "Ev", Eva Luise Bleymaier. He left the monastery in 1932, resigned from the order and settled in Klagenfurt with Ev. In August 1932 their daughter Notburga was born, whereupon Lobisser was made a layman. In January 1933 Ev died a tragic death and in the autumn Lobisser moved to a new house on today's Lobisserweg and devoted himself only to his artistic work and married Relli Lobisser. He died on October 1, 1943.