Janus Genelli

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Janus Genelli (portrait by Friedrich Bury )
Haulers in front of a rocky coast , 1802

Janus Genelli (* 1761 in Copenhagen , † 1813 in Berlin ) was a landscape painter of classicism .

Life

Janus Genelli came from an originally Roman family of artists who emigrated to Copenhagen around 1730. His father Joseph worked as a silk embroiderer. In 1774 he came to Berlin with his family via Vienna . Here he became a student of the director of the Berlin academy Blaise Nicolas Le Sueur after 1780 . In 1786 he went on a study trip through Dresden to Rome with his brother, the architect Hans Christian Genelli . There he made the acquaintance of Jakob Philipp Hackert , who had a great influence on his landscape concepts. From 1803 he was a drawing teacher for Queen Luise of Prussia and the then eight-year-old Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm .

Genelli's pictures are characterized by their ideal, glossy and warm colors, even where they depict nature from its dark side. Some of his best works include some depictions of Harz regions . Genelli's complete works are few and not very widespread today. In the eyes of his contemporaries, however, the artist is said to have been considered ingenious.

Genelli was friends with Carl von Brühl the Seifersdorfer Count and later director of the royal theaters in Berlin (1815-1828). They met in 1792.

Janus Genelli is the father of the painter Bonaventura Genelli . Genelli and Brühl were friends for many years and the Genellis also visited Karl in Seifersdorf (Wachau) . In 1803 Karl von Brühl became the godfather of Bonaventura Genelli.

Web links

Commons : Janus Genelli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genelli, Janus. ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Galerie Bessange
  2. ^ Margret Dorothea Minkels : The founders of the New Museum Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Of Prussia and Elisabeth of Bavaria. Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-0212-2 , p. 6.
  3. ^ Book "Karl Graf von Brühl and his parents" by Hans Krosigk, page 181
  4. ^ Book "Karl Graf von Brühl and his parents" by Hans von Krosigk, page 182
personal data
SURNAME Genelli, Janus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Landscape painter of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH 1813
Place of death Berlin