Ernst Jordan (painter)

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“Painter Prof. Jordan” (3rd from left) as a member of the Kunstverein Hannover at its 71st exhibition opening;
Photo print based on a group picture by Ernst August Fischer , 1903

Ernst Pasqual Jordan (born January 22, 1858 in Hanover , † September 8, 1924 in Barsinghausen ) was a German painter and professor . The tradition-conscious artist was "one of the most influential personalities in Hanover's art life" until the 1920s .

Life

family

Ernst Jordan was the father of the later physicist Ernst Pascual Jordan (1902–1980), the co-founder of quantum mechanics .

Career

The Mellini Theater with the ceiling painting by Ernst Jordan;
Postcard number 847 from Karl F. Wunder

Ernst Jordan was trained as a decorative painter at the Hanover School of Art and Crafts and then initially worked as a theater painter . From 1880 he attended the Berlin School of Applied Arts and the Berlin Academy of the Arts under Ernst Hildebrand .

After staying in Paris and Rome for several years, Jordan returned to his native Hanover in 1887 and became a member of the Hanover Art Association in the same year . In 1895 Jordan was given the position of lecturer for drawing and architectural painting at the Technical University , and two years later, in 1897, he took over the management of the “ Aktsaal ” at the Werkkunstschule.

In 1899 Ernst Jordan received an extraordinary professorship at the Hanover Technical University. One of his students was Ischi von König , who was born in Berlin and came to Hanover at the beginning of the 20th century.

"Klostergang" with a view of the Begin Tower ;
Stone printing by A. Molling & Comp. , around 1920

Ernst Jordan had already joined the Kunstverein Hannover in 1896 , which elected him to the board in 1909 .

Ernst Jordan had a great influence on the Hanoverian art scene beyond the end of the German Empire and the First World War up to the 1920s. The tradition-conscious, even conservative painter was "a decisive opponent of the modern art movements in Hanover in the years after 1916/17" and remained stuck in the art movements of the 19th century in his work. However, this did not prevent him, for reproductions of his and other works by members of the Kunstverein, for example the - later Aryanized - Lithographische Kunst- und Verlags-Anstalt Hannover A. Molling & Comp. to use where he could have met modern artists such as the Merz artist Kurt Schwitters .

Ernst Jordan died in Barsinghausen in 1924.

Works (incomplete)

In Hannover

Ernst Jordan created in Hanover

  • numerous architectural images
  • four large murals for the (German) military insurance company in Rathenaustraße / Landschaftsstraße (today part of the Deutsche Bank AG building complex )
  • Ceiling painting in the Mellini Theater
  • View of the cloister corridor with a view of the Begin Tower , reproduced around 1920 as a stone print by A. Molling & Comp.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst Jordan (painter)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Ralph Beims (ViSd § 6 MDStV): Jesus blesses the children on the marktkirche-goslar.de website of the Marktkirche St. Cosmas and Damian in Goslar , last accessed on October 8, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Compare this artist's signature on the lithograph
  2. ↑ a b c d Hugo Thielen: JORDAN (2), Ernst Pasqual (see literature)
  3. ↑ Compare the GND number of the German National Library
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hugo Thielen: Jordan (2), Ernst Pasqual (see literature)
  5. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : JORDAN (1), Ernst Pascual , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 189, online via Google books
  6. ^ Hugo Thielen: KÖNIG, Ischi (aka Ilse) von , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 204; online through google books
  7. ↑ a b Edel Sheridan-Quantz: Lust and joke for children's hearts. From Hanover to the world , leaflet for the exhibition of the same name from January 18 to April 15, 2012 in the Hanover Historical Museum , 2012
  8. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Hägemann, Georg (e). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 247
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Ernst Pasqual (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theatrical, decorative and architectural painter as well as university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1924
Place of death Barsinghausen