David Jensen (sculptor)

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David Ivanovich Jensen ( Russian Давид Иванович Йенсен * 19th November 1816 in Copenhagen , † January 10 . Jul / 23. January  1902 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Danish - Russian sculptor and university lecturer .

Life

Jensen, the son of a carpenter join , studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Bertel Thorvaldsen . In 1841 he received the Academy ’s Great Money Medal for his bas-relief Christ in the House of Marthas and Mary .

In 1841 Jensen was called to St. Petersburg to do sculpting in the Mariinsky Palace of the Grand Duchess Marija Nikolajewna . There he made some small bas-reliefs and caryatids . 1843-1847 he taught at the drawing school of the Imperial Society for the Promotion of the Arts. In 1845 he was awarded for his bas-relief The Centaur teaches Achilles the archery recognition as an independent artist. In 1847, together with Johann Reimers , he opened the first workshop in Russia for the firing of sculptural art objects and decorations made from particularly strong terracotta .

Jensen created bas-reliefs, busts , vases , statues , fountains and chimneys . He furnished the palaces of the Grand Dukes Nikolai Nikolajewitsch , Michael Nikolajewitsch , Sergei Alexandrowitsch and Pawel Alexandrowitsch with sculptures as well as the New Hermitage (1847) and the Beloselsky-Belosersky Palace (1850). He created a terracotta gable for the St. Petersburg Manege , which was dismantled during the Soviet Union . He designed the imperial rooms in the stations of the Tsarskoye Selo railway . In 1859 he created the James Wylie Memorial and the Hygieia Fountain for the Military Medical Academy . In 1860 he received a diamond ring for sculptures for the Alexander Nevsky Church in the Alexander Park of Peterhof Palace , whose main imperial horse stables he decorated. In St. Petersburg he decorated the well house of Count Sheremetev , the Archives of the State Council , the Theater an der Fontanka , the Grand Hotel Europe and the Great Choral Synagogue . He also designed the sculptural decorations of richly furnished apartment houses , stone villas and public buildings for the Pavel Yulievich Sjusor projects .

In 1857 Jensen received Russian citizenship and for his bas-relief Achilles he was appointed a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts from the battle with the body of the defeated Hector . In 1868 he was appointed professor of the academy for his Diana statue. Alexander Michailowitsch Opekuschin and Leopold Bernhard Bernstamm were among his students .

Jensen was buried in the Lutheran part of the Smolensk Cemetery in St. Petersburg.

Works

  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann , New Hermitage, St. Petersburg

  • Albrecht Dürer , New Hermitage, St. Petersburg

  • Atlases , Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, St. Petersburg

  • Wylie Memorial, Military Medical Academy, St. Petersburg

  • Hygieia Fountain, Academy of Military Medicine, St. Petersburg

  • Atlases, Grand Hotel Europe, St. Petersburg

  • Angels on the boathouse of the Peter and Paul Fortress , St. Petersburg

  • Theater on the Fontanka, St. Petersburg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrei Ivanovich Somov : Йенсен (Давид Иванович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XIIIa, 1894, p. 850 (Russian, s: ru: ЭСБЕ / Йенсен, Давид Иванович [accessed August 8, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Датчанин на берегах Невы: скульптор Давид Иенсен (accessed August 8, 2018).
  3. ↑ О.А. Кривдина: Скульптор Давид Иванович Иенсен (1816–1902) (accessed August 8, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Йенсен, Давид Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-Russian sculptor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1902
Place of death St. Petersburg