Angelo Jank

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Angelo Jank.

Angelo Jank (born October 30, 1868 in Munich ; † October 9, 1940 there ) was a German animal painter , graphic artist and member of the Munich Secession .

life and work

" Traveling Circus ", 1906
Illustration for Otto Erich Hartleben : Dimple , in: Simplicissimus (1896)
“Reitschuljagd” , dated 1910;
Four-color print for the Hanover Military Riding Institute , Illustrirte Zeitung No. 3911, " War number 202", 1918

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1888 , Angelo Jank studied from 1891 to 1896 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ludwig von Löfftz and Paul Hoecker and exhibited with Group G and the Scholle in Munich's Glaspalast from 1895 .

In 1898 Jank was represented for the first time at an exhibition at the Munich Secession . In the autumn of 1898 he spent several weeks in Harburg with Max Feldbauer . From 1899 to 1907 he was a teacher at the women's academy of the Munich Artists' Association . In 1907 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as the successor to Wilhelm von Diez .

After the retirement of the animal painter and impressionist Professor Heinrich von Zügel in 1922, Jank headed the animal painting class at the actual Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as his successor. At the end of the 1920s, Jank was elected chairman of the Association of Visual Artists Munich Secession . In this function he was also the exhibition director for the Munich art exhibitions in the Glaspalast.

In particular, he painted horses and riders in motion. Here he used a brisk impressionistic technique. From 1906 he painted murals for the Munich Palace of Justice as well as historical pictures for the Berlin Reichstag building . Jank's students included Willibald Besta , Erma Bossi , Lothar Dietz , Josef Hengge , Erich Lasse , Franz Xaver Stahl , Karl Gatermann the Younger , Berta Katharina Lassen , Fritz Heinsheimer , Karl Friedrich Roth , Amanda Tröndle-Engel and Paul Stollreither .

Jank worked for the Munich weekly newspaper Die Jugend and at Simplicissimus . He had been married to Baron Anna von Thüngen since 1904, his daughter Ali (Anna-Luise) Jank, born July 25, 1916, married Bertram Riedesel Freiherr zu Eisenbach in 1939 . Angelo Jank also had an illegitimate son Klaus (* February 1906) with the artist Marie Schnür (1869-?), Whom Schnür was only allowed to raise after she had entered into a fictitious marriage with Franz Marc in 1907 .

Angelo Jank was a member of the German Association of Artists .

literature

  • Richard Braungart: Angelo Jank - Munich. In: German Art and Decoration , Vol. 29, Oct. 1911 – March 1912, pp. 30–44.
  • Hans H. Hofstätter: Art Nouveau - graphics and printing art. Eltville 1985. ISBN 3-88102-062-4 .
  • Robert Darmstädter: Reclams artist lexicon , Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1979; ISBN 3-15-010280-4

Web links

Commons : Angelo Jank  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1887/88
  2. ↑ The Jankschen images in the Reichstag building . In: Vossische Zeitung , June 1918, p. 11 (bottom right)
  3. ^ Brigitte Salmen, Maria Marc. Life and life's work , p. 8. in: Brigitte Salmen (Ed.): Maria Marc in the circle of the “Blue Rider” . Exhibition catalog, Murnau Castle Museum, 2004.
  4. ^ Kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Jank, Angelo ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on September 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Yank, Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1940
Place of death Munich