Adolf Jahn

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Adolf Ferdinand Walter Jahn (born December 17, 1858 in Stettin , † December 19, 1941 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Adolf Jahn was the youngest of three children of Carl Wilhelm Jahn and Catharina Friederike Wilhelmine Jahn born. Burchard. The father was a merchant in Stettin and came from Crossen on the Oder , the mother was the daughter of Joachim Friedrich Burchard, teacher and sexton at the Berlin Garrison Church and came from Berlin. After the death of his parents, Adolf Jahn grew up in Berlin with his father's sister. He first attended the trade school in Berlin and at the age of 19 came to the Berlin Art Academy , where he worked from 1877 to 1881 as a student a. a. by Albert Wolff and Fritz SchaperStudied sculpture. He received several awards during his studies. Later he was awarded the Golden Medal for Art and Science on the ribbon of the Frederick Order. From 1882 to 1884 Adolf Jahn was a student in Vienna with the sculptors Anton Schmidgruber and Viktor Tilgner . In Berlin he worked in the studios of the sculptors Max Kruse , Peter Breuer and Joseph Kaffsack .

Adolf Jahn also took on teaching activities himself, in 1885 at the royal Prussian technical college for the metal industry in Iserlohn and from 1891 as a lecturer in sculpture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg together with Otto Geyer . The sculptor Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg was a student of Adolf Jahn there. The sculptor Else Fürst was a student in his studio in Berlin.

In 1890 Adolf Jahn married Emilie Bertha Porsch in Vienna (born April 28, 1859 in Znaim in Moravia; † June 13, 1905 in (Berlin-) Schöneberg), a daughter of Dr. jur. Ignaz Porsch and Josefa Porsch b. Palka. He took his wife with him to Berlin, where he started his own workshop in 1891.

In addition to monumental portraits, portrait busts and bronze statuettes were the main focus of his work. From 1893 to 1918 he sent numerous statues, groups, busts and reliefs in bronze, marble, plaster and wood to the annual Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

Adolf Jahn's best-known work is the statuette "Nathan the Wise" based on the eponymous drama by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . It was reproduced from 1899 by the bronze foundry Aktiengesellschaft Gladenbeck Berlin, formerly H. Gladenbeck & Sohn, in bronze and alabaster in different sizes, from 1909 with the patented 'pyrochrome' process also in different colors and from 1913 by the " Königlich Dänischen Porcelainsfabrik, Copenhagen "also made in porcelain. It is still offered at auctions today.

In 1893 the only son Walter Hugo Otto was born. After the death of his wife, he raised his son alone. Adolf Jahn worked as a sculptor until after the First World War. From 1934 he lived with his son and his family in Halle an der Saale, where he died in 1941. He was buried in the Gertrauden cemetery in Halle / Saale.

Works

Statuettes

Nathan the wise
  • Nathan the Wise (1893)
  • Shylock
  • Othello
  • Water Carrier (1897)
  • Sailor (1898)
  • Mother's Love (1900)
  • Dante
  • Alfred Krupp
  • Martin Luther
  • Wilhelm II as a crusader (1898)
  • Figure "repudiated" (1905)
  • "Destiny" figure (1906)
  • Still picture with children (1910)
  • Faust (1915)
  • New Seed (1917)
  • The fight (1918)

Portrait busts

Reliefs

  • The Work (1910)

Publicly owned work

Eduard Baltzer fountain in Nordhausen
  • Berlin, State Library: 2 allegorical figures from the Prussian universities of Marburg and Greifswald (1914)
  • Berlin, old garrison cemetery: grave monument for Olga Malcomess (1904)
  • Lüben in Silesia, today Lubin : Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I (1901)
  • Nordhausen: Eduard Baltzer fountain (1910)
  • Tuttlingen: Monument to Max Schneckenburger with a bronze figure of Germania and a portrait relief of the poet on the base (1892)
  • Talheim: Bronze figure of Germania in front of the house where Max Schneckenburger was born (1895)
  • Sulzfeld: War memorial 1870/71 with Germania figure (1895)
  • Dorum, municipality of Wurster North Sea coast: War memorial 1870/71 with Germania figure (1898)
  • Hirschberg-Großsachsen: War memorial 1870/71 with Germania figure (1899)
  • Memprechtshofen: War memorial 1870/71 with Germania figure (1906)
  • Wiesent, district of Regensburg: War memorial 1870/71 with Germania figure
  • Danzig: allegorical female figures for the Reichsbank (1902)
  • Fulda: the same

Quote

“A master of cabaret. Unfortunately, the sculpture is still mostly measured with a yardstick. In addition, you buy French bronzes or inferior imitations. Let us refer to the humble Berlin sculptor, who recently created works of cabaret with remarkable success. A. Jahn is also no stranger to monumental art, but the main decoration of his workshop in the vd Heydtstraße in Berlin, along with some portrait busts of scholars, are bronze statuettes with a unique, simple charm in structure and silhouette. His "Nathan the Wise", who evidently tells the fairy tale of the three rings, is one of the happiest incarnations of the wise and just Jew, whom the Talmudic school taught thought, the toleration of life. The "water-bearer" has a certain bitter grace that breaks through the frieze skirt and flannel jacket. The firm yet balancing stride comes to a naturally convincing expression, the execution of the characteristic head as well as the treatment of the raw fabric testify to the same loving care. "

- German art. Supplement: Das Atelier, Illustrated Journal for German Art Creation , No. 17 of June 20, 1898.

literature

  • Catalogs of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1893–1918.
  • Art Chronicle . 23rd year 1888, p. 627 ff. And p. 639.
  • German art. Supplement Das Atelier, magazine for German art. No. 17 (dated June 20, 1898).
  • Willy Oskar Dreßler (Hrsg.): Dressler's art yearbook . 1st edition, Haberland, Leipzig 1906, p. 108.
  • Willy Oskar Dreßler (ed.): Dressler's art manual . 8th edition, Volume 2, Wasmuth, Berlin 1921, p. 270.
  • Jahn, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 343 .
  • Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, soulpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Extended and corrected new edition, Volume 7, Gründ, Paris 1976, p. 21.
  • Harold Bermann: Bronzes, Sculptors & Founders 1800–1930. Volume 4, Abage, Chicago 1980, pp. 950 and p. 1128.
  • James Mackay: Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Printed in England by Baron Publishing, 1977, p. 198.
  • Brigitte Hüfler: Contributions with short biographies of Berlin sculptors. In: Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz, Jutta von Simson: Ethos and Pathos. The Berlin School of Sculpture 1786–1914. Volume 2, Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2 .
  • Förderverein Alter Berliner Garnisonfriedhof eV (Ed.): The old Berlin garrison cemetery in the area of ​​tension between Scheunenviertel and Monbijou. Haude and Spener, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-7759-0399-2 .
  • Renate Amann, Barbara von Neumann-Cosel: A reform island in stone Berlin. 90 years of the Karl Schrader House of BBG Berliner Baugenossenschaft eG Edition Arkadien, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930075-15-6 .
  • Eberhard Kasten: Jahn, Adolf . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 77, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023182-3 , p. 195.

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personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Adolf Ferdinand Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1941
Place of death Halle (Saale)