Gerhard Janssen (painter, 1863)
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
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
- Gerhard Janssen: 27 oil paintings, 28 drawings , list of exhibited works of art p. 56, in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in the Kunstpalast zu Düsseldorf , Berlin, 1917
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Janssen (1863-1931) , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Honorary Citizen , website in the portal kalkar.de , accessed on November 11, 2017.
- ^ Andreas Daams: Anatomy of an artist's life . Article dated October 9, 2013 in the nrz.de portal , accessed on November 11, 2017.
- ↑ Village festival on the Lower Rhine
- ↑ Self-portrait
- ↑ The old Bockhalle in Dusseldorf, Gerhard Janssen, 1890, Museum Kunst Palast, Property Code: mkp.M 4139 , on d: cult
personal data | |
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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 |