Georg Jabin

Georg Jabin (born August 18, 1828 in Braunschweig , † January 14, 1864 in Harzburg ) was a German landscape painter .

Life

Jabin was the son of a trumpeter in the ducal Braunschweig hussar regiment, whom he lost early. Because he showed artistic talent early on, patrons made it possible for him to train at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he studied landscape painting with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer from 1850 to 1855 . After completing his training, he moved to the Harz Mountains , married Countess Clementine von Kospoth in 1856 and settled in Bad Harzburg.

In 1857 Jabin traveled to Switzerland and in the autumn of 1863 to Norway to find new courage to face life in the impressive landscape after the death of his only child, but collapsed after his return while working on his last painting and died of exhaustion two days later. His wife Clementine, who also painted landscapes as a “ dilettante ”, died on January 15, 1874 in Harzburg.

Works

Family portrait (around 1850),
oil on canvas, 118 × 106 cm

Jabin's motifs were mostly mountain landscapes from the Harz Mountains, Switzerland and Norway. Jabin's best-known work is a “waterfall in the Lin Valley in Switzerland”, which he painted in three versions. It was awarded the "golden medal for art" and widely distributed as lithograph , woodcut and photography . The paintings went to museums in Amsterdam , London and Braunschweig.

Other paintings by Jabin show the upper Murgseefall in Switzerland, a forest mill in Westphalia and, above all, motifs from the Harz Mountains, such as the Brocken in the moonlight, the Eckerfall , Regenstein , Falkenstein , the Okertal and the Ilsetal .

Most recently he worked on a large painting of the Vöringfoss waterfall in Norway, which remained unfinished.

literature

• Jabin, Georg. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 599 ( archive.org ).
• Jabin, Georg . 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. 216-217 .
• Britta Berg: Jabin, Christian Georg Gottfried. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 298 .
• Ludwig Ferdinand Spehr :  Jabin, Ch. G. Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 522 f.

Web links

Commons : Georg Jabin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files