Johann Jaenichen

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Storchenhaus in Wustrow , Jaenichen's home and studio

Johann Jaenichen (born October 8, 1873 in Großenhain ; † May 7, 1945 in Wustrow ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Jaenichen was born in Grossenhain in 1873 as the son of a major. He taught himself sculpture as an autodidact after initially completing a civil service career as a financial assessor at the Royal Saxon State Railways . On the occasion of a study trip that took him to Rome , he met Hedwig Woermann , whom he married in 1908. With her he moved to Sceaux , France , where he specialized in the representation of horses and riders. His first exhibitions with 19 sculptures took place in E. Arnold's art salon in Dresden and in the Hamburger Kunstverein . During the First World War both moved to Dresden; In 1919 they bought a house in Wustrow. Here they both set up a studio, which Jaenichen used for sculpture and his wife for painting. He also used the old fish smokehouse in the Barnstorf district of Wustrow as a studio, where Heinrich Hauser also lived in 1925 .

Her work was interrupted by trips overseas for several years in some cases until she finally returned to Germany in 1936. Jaenichen's horse depictions continued to be popular with sports and art lovers during the National Socialist era . However, both of them found it difficult to cope with the changed climate.

Shortly after the Soviet troops marched in on May 3rd, the couple attempted suicide on May 7th, 1945, which Hedwig Jaenichen-Woermann survived. Jaenichen's works in his studio were destroyed. His grave is in the Wustrower Friedhof.

Works

Hussar memorial in Hamburg-Wandsbek

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hedwig Woermann House
  2. ↑ Grith Graebner: "Creeping under the skin of life." Heinrich Hauser. Life and work. A critical-biographical bibliography of works. Shaker Verlag , Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-8265-9406-1 , p. 26
  3. ↑ Joachim Gauck : Winter in Summer - Spring in Autumn: Memories . Siedler Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-641-03901-1 , p. 20 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed October 14, 2013]).

literature

  • Kurverwaltung Ostseebad Wustrow (Hrsg.): Kulturpfad - Ostseebad Wustrow . 1st edition. Klatschmohn Verlag Druck + Werbung GmbH & Co. KG, Bentwisch 2008, p. 40-41 .
  • Ruth Negendanck : Ahrenshoop artists' colony. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 , pp. 199ff.
  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 88f.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4569 .
  • Renate Billinger-Cromm: Hedwig Woermann: artist and citizen of the world; 1879-1960. Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 2015, ISBN 978-3-88132-996-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Jaenichen, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossenhain
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1945
Place of death Wustrow