Jacob Gensler

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A hollyhock, 1827, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Jacob Gensler in the middle of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 , Günther Gensler, 1840
Tomb open-air museum Heckengarten Friedhof Ohlsdorf

Johann Jacob Gensler (also: Jakob Gensler , born January 21, 1808 in Hamburg ; † January 26, 1845 ibid) was a German painter from the Hamburg School .

Life

The son of a gold platter learned drawing from his older brother Günther and then studied with Wilhelm Tischbein in Eutin and with Gerdt Hardorff and Siegfried Bendixen in Hamburg. From 1828 to 1831 he attended the academy in Munich , from where he returned to Hamburg in 1831. His pictures, mostly folk scenes, especially from the immediate vicinity of Hamburg, are characterized by their great faithfulness to nature. He was a founding member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 .

Of his etched leaves, the sailors and the marginal drawings for the ballad The Noble Boy and the Miller's Woman for the work Songs and Pictures (Hamburg 1844) were most popular. For the Hamburg certificates of thanks for Prussia , Saxony-Meiningen , Bremen , Nassau , the Netherlands and England, he provided decorations using the technique of medieval miniature painting. Gensler died in Hamburg on January 26, 1845.

His older brother, Günther , b. 1803 in Hamburg, portrait painter, died May 28, 1884; the younger brother, Martin , b. 1811 in Hamburg, was an architecture and genre painter and died on December 15, 1881.

All three Gensler brothers were also members of the Hamburg gymnastics association from 1816 .

Honors

The (family) tomb of Johann Jacob Gensler is located in the open-air tomb museum Heckengarten at the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf , in addition, in the area of ​​the Ohlsdorf Althamburg Memorial Cemetery on the collective tomb “painter” is given to him, his brothers Günther and Martin and to other Hamburg painters remind.

The Genslerstraße in Hamburg-Barmbek was named after the brothers.

Works

Beach near Blankenese , 1842

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Gerhard Ahrens: Gensler, Jacob . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 103-103 .
  • Fritz Bürger: Die Gensler, three Hamburg painters of the 19th century , Heitz, Strasbourg 1888 ( digitized version )
  • Fritz Bürger: Studies on German Art History 190. Issue: Die Genseler, three Hamburg painters of the 19th century , 1916
  • Emil Benezé :  Gensler, Günther . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 284 f. (Family item)
  • Helmut R. Leppien : Light, color and moving life. In: In the light of Caspar David Friedrichs - Early open-air painting in Denmark and Northern Germany. / Baltic Light / Lumière du Nord. Catalog for the 1999/2000 exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen.
  • Gustav Lindtke: Old Lübeck City Views , Lübecker Museumhefte, Heft 7, Lübeck 1968, p. 99
  • Silke Reuther: Johann Jacob Gensler: A painter from Hamburg (1808-1845) , Berlin 1998.
  • Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein and his students in Eutin, in: Nordelbingen Vol. 81, 2012, pp. 39–71.
  • Henry A. Smith: Through the eyes of a painter - Eutin and Eastern Holstein in the letters of the young Jacob Gensler. In: Nordelbingen Vol. 84, 2015, pp. 85–130.

Web links

Commons : Johann Jacob Gensler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Heitmann: Timeline of the history of the Hamburg gymnastics club from 1816: 1816 - 1882. Herbst, Hamburg, 1883, p. 5. ( online )
  2. ↑ Die Genseler (PDF; 11.9 MB) p. 75, ebooks, accessed January 18, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Gensler, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gensler, Johann Jacob; Gensler, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1845
Place of death Hamburg