Gerhard Janensch

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  • "The blacksmith" (draft 1897)

  • "Bacchant with Panthers" (1883, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin)

  • Heinrich Schüchtermann Monument in Dortmund on the Ostwall (1899)

  • Children's group at the Schüchtermann memorial

  • Worker figure at the Schüchtermann monument

  • "Stahlgießer" (1918) in Hamburg-Harburg

  • Heinrich Schüchtermann monument in Bad Rothenfelde

Gerhard Adolf Janensch (born April 24, 1860 in Zamborst in Pomerania , † February 2, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Life

At the age of 17, Gerhard Janensch, and according to other sources also Adolf Gerhard Janensch, was a student of the Royal Academy of Arts for three years with Fritz Schaper , Albert Wolff and Paul Thumann . He then began working as a studio in Vienna in 1880 , but returned to Fritz Schaper's studio in 1883. In 1884 he received a Rome grant with a stay in the Villa Strohl-Fern and became a member of the German Association of Artists. Finally he became self-employed in 1886 and the following year he was a teacher at the Academy in Berlin until 1924. He gave workshop lessons as a carpenter , wheelwright , blacksmith , locksmith and potter .

In 1892 he succeeded Albert Wolff as head of the modeling class at the Berlin Academy. In 1897 he was made a full member of the Academy. Here he was active in the Senate of the Academy until 1923.

Janensch died in 1933 and was buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

Works

The first work to be mentioned is the art casting Bacchant with Panthers , realized by the Gladenbeck art foundry in Friedrichshagen , which was created in 1883. For this work he was awarded the Rome Scholarship.

The Berlin twist drill manufacturer and manor owner Robert Stock was considered a patron of Gerhard Janensch. It was also he who bought the model of a life-size figure of a blacksmith on a bell-shaped base, shown by Janensch at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1897, and had it cast in bronze. The sculpture shows a blacksmith in full work clothes, equipped with a hammer and anvil , who wipes the sweat from his forehead after the work is done. Based on the song of the bell by Friedrich Schiller , the bell-shaped base is among other things with the quote

"The sweat must run hot from the forehead if the work wants to praise the master ..."

decorated. The total height of the sculpture is 300 cm. The proportionate height of the blacksmith is 200 cm. This work was used as a grave sculpture after the death of Robert Stock and can still be seen today in the Luisenstadt cemetery on Bergmannstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

The blacksmith gained additional popularity through the creation of smaller frames (50 cm and 100 cm high) by the Gladenbeck bronze foundry . Further motifs from the industrial and working world later supplemented this work. Well-known motifs are the iron caster , the man at the Martinsofen , the boiler maker , the hammer swing , the waltz , the enameller and the glassblower . Some of these works were also exhibited in 1928 at the large exhibition "Art and Technology" in the Folkwang Museum in Essen . Here Janensch was exhibited alongside Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Constantin Meunier in the "Bronzes" section.

Other works by Janensch are:

Museums and collections

Some of these works can now be found in the following collections: Hamburg Archaeological Museum in Hamburg-Harburg , on the Harburger Rathausstrasse museum axis, the life-size iron caster (approx. 172 cm) can be seen between the two houses of the museum. This version of the iron caster is also still in the public space of the city of Saarbrücken and probably in a "House of Engineers" near Katowice / Poland. Further works can be found in the Rheinisches Industriemuseum Oberhausen , in the Art Casting Museum Lauchhammer , in the Art Collection Lausitz at the Museum Senftenberg, in the "Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection at the Milwaukee School of Engineering " in Milwaukee , in the Culture and City History Museum Duisburg and in the "Collection Werner Bibl - Promotion of Art in Public Space ”in Gelsenkirchen-Buer .

The sculptural works by Gerhard Janensch "Industry and the world of work" reflect in an impressive way the mood of the important painting "Eisenwalzwerk 1872/75" by Adolph Menzel . This work is in the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

literature

  • Janensch, Gerhard (Adolf G.) . 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. 382-383 .
  • Gerhard Janensch . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 528 .
  • Exhibition catalogs "Ethos and Pathos - Die Berliner Bildhauerschule 1786-1914" - Sculpture Gallery - State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2 , pp. 41, 274, 333, 347 and 489 as well as ISBN 3-7861-1597-4 on pp. 133-135. Furthermore, the motif “The Blacksmith” can be found on the front pages of both catalogs. This important exhibition took place from May 19 to July 29, 1990 under the direction of Peter Bloch u. a. in the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
  • Klaus Türk: People and work. 400 years of work in the visual arts. The Eckhart G. Grohman Collection at Milwaukee School of Engineering. VMSOE Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2003, ISBN 3-89861-209-0 , pp. 153, 186.
  • Exhibition catalog for the exhibition "Art and Technology 1928" in the Folkwang Museum in Essen. W. Girardet Verlag, Essen 1928, pp. 99/100.
  • Georg Holländer: The technical landscape. The collection of the Lower Rhine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Booklet accompanying the exhibition, published by the City of Duisburg. Duisburg 1995, p. 11 - Hammerschwinger (1920).
  • The work. Volume 1, 1921/22, issue 12. Cover picture

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Janensch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Janensch, Gerhard (Adolf G.) . 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. 382-383 . , later better known only as Gerhard Janensch.
personal data
SURNAME Janensch, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janensch, Gerhard Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Zamborst , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1933
Place of death Berlin