Gerhard Janssen (painter, 1863)

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Wilhelm Peter Gerhard Janssen (born September 26, 1863 in Kalkar ; died July 4, 1931 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

The Gerhard Janssen Group in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf 1917

Janssen was born the son of a rope maker . From 1878 to 1893 he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There were Hugo Crola , Heinrich Lauenstein and especially Peter Janssen the Elder his teachers.

About 1915 titled Professor Janssen lived at Rosenstrasse No. 3 in the house of the painter Wilhelm Döringer

His works include paintings of fairground and pub scenes as well as the life of ordinary people on the Lower Rhine . He became an honorary citizen of Kalkar in 1930; however, he was unable to attend the celebrations for health reasons. Some works are now part of the art collection of the Kalkar Municipal Museum .

Works

  • Village festival on the Lower Rhine
  • Self portrait
  • The old Bockhalle Düsseldorf (around 1890)

literature

  • Janssen, Wilhelm Peter Gerhard. In: Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorfer Malerschule 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 177 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Janssen (1863-1931) , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
  2. ↑ Cf. No. 6485–6499 and 6548 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( State Archive North Rhine-Westphalia )
  3. ↑ Rosenstrasse 3: E. Döringer, Wilhelm, professor, teacher at the Kgl. Art academy; Janssen, Gerhard, professor, painter , in address book for the city of Düsseldorf 1915, p. 333
  4. ↑ Honorary Citizen , website in the portal kalkar.de , accessed on November 11, 2017.
  5. ^ Andreas Daams: Anatomy of an artist's life . Article dated October 9, 2013 in the nrz.de portal , accessed on November 11, 2017.
  6. ↑ Village festival on the Lower Rhine
  7. ↑ Self-portrait
  8. ↑ The old Bockhalle in Dusseldorf, Gerhard Janssen, 1890, Museum Kunst Palast, Property Code: mkp.M 4139 , on d: cult
personal data
SURNAME Janssen, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janssen, Wilhelm Peter Gerhard (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalkar
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1931
Place of death Dusseldorf