Jens Adolf Jerichau
Jens Adolf Jerichau (born April 7, 1816 in Assens , † July 25, 1883 ) was a Danish sculptor .
Jens Adolf Jerichau received his artistic training at the academy in Copenhagen and had been in Rome since 1838. There he was strongly influenced by Bertel Thorvaldsen .
Jerichau established its reputation with a relief on a frieze in the royal palace in Christiansborg near Copenhagen, which depicts the wedding of Alexander the great with Roxane .
His colossal group: Hercules and Hebe as well as a marble-carved Penelope are kept in a strictly antique spirit. He also created a group depicting a hunter attacked by a panther and bathing girls.
As a result of a price offered by the Princess of Prussia, he delivered a marble depiction of the resurrection of Christ. He died on July 25, 1883. His grave in Copenhagen is adorned with a bronze copy of the Angel of Peace which he made for the grave of Charlotte Friederike von Mecklenburg-Schwerin on the Roman Campo Santo Teutonico .
His wife, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann , was a painter and his son Harald was a painter.
literature
- Nicolaj Bøgh, Erindringer af og om Jens Adolf Jerichau , Copenhagen 1884 (Danish).
- Jens Adolf Jerichau . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 0196.
- Harald Tesan: Thorvaldsen and his sculpture school in Rome . Böhlau, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-412-14197-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Albrecht Weiland: The Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and its grave monuments. Volume I , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1988, ISBN 3451208822 , p. 219
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jerichau, Jens Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Assens |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1883 |