Peter Janssen

This article is about the painter Peter Janssen. For other people see Peter Jansen .

Peter Janssen , called the Younger (born March 29, 1906 in Bonn , † March 18, 1979 in Berlin ), full baptismal name Peter Tamme Weyert , was a German painter .

He was a member of the Young Rhineland , the New Rhenish Secession, the Rhine Group , the German Association of Artists and the New Group in Munich, and in 1945 co-founder of the Hella Nebelung Gallery .

Life

Janssen was the grandson of the painter Peter Janssen the Elder. Ä. and first son of the surgery professor and founder of the Golzheimer Klinik Peter Janssen and his wife Martha, a daughter of the Düsseldorf banker Moritz Leiffmann . Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Düsseldorf , where his siblings Inge-Ruth (1908) and Claus (1912) were born.

After attending the Hindenburg School (today Humboldt-Gymnasium ) in Düsseldorf and the Evangelical Pedagogy in Godesberg to Untersekunda (1913–1923), he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Heinrich Nauen , Johan Thorn-Prikker and Karl Ederer, which he did from 1926 continued at the free Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris until 1928 .

Janssen then lived as a freelance artist in Düsseldorf until 1930. His first solo exhibition took place at Alfred Flechtheim's in 1932 .

Three years later, in 1935, Peter Janssen had sold a garden area from his mother's inheritance in Düsseldorf-Golzheim to the city of Düsseldorf and placed the condition that an artists' estate with inexpensive living space had to be built for Düsseldorf artists. In the same year, he was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts. He circumvented the ban on painting and exhibiting for racial reasons - because of his maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother he was considered a “ Jewish mixed race ” under the Nuremberg Laws , the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts forbade him to work as a painter and graphic artist on February 28, 1935 through stays in Spain , from 1936 in Italy , 1937 in America and from 1938 to 1939 in England .

Four years after the National Socialists came to power , the Great Reich Exhibition, Creative People, opened in the Nordpark in 1937 with the Schlageterstadt model estate, which also included the Golzheim artists' estate . In 1937 the city gave Peter Janssen no studio in the artists' estate.

In 1940 he did military service in Leipzig . Between 1941 and 1944 he stayed illegally in Berlin, in Baden-Baden , in the Eifel and Robertville (Belgium).

The artist was arrested on November 11, 1944 and deported to the Lönnewitz labor camp. In 1945 he managed to escape from the camp and find shelter in Düsseldorf. After he was involved in founding the Hella Nebelung Gallery in 1945 , he showed his works in a first solo exhibition after the war in 1946. From 1948 to 1956 Janssen worked and lived in “Atelier 7” in the artist community center at Franz-Jürgens-Straße 12 in the Golzheimer Siedlung .

In 1957 Janssen was appointed to the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin , where he stayed after his retirement in 1971 and worked as a freelance artist.

Peter Janssen died in 1979 shortly before the age of 72.

The daughter Monica, born in 1932, comes from a first marriage, which he entered into with Ida Marie Rödmann in 1930 and divorced in the late 1930s. In 1939 Peter Janssen married Ellen Meißner for the second time, their daughter Nikola was born in 1942. In 1949 he married Elsa Graf, b. Warsinsky.

Awards

• 1952: Cornelius Prize of the City of Düsseldorf

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His work has been shown in several exhibitions in Germany and abroad and is represented in the Berlinische Galerie Berlin, Artothek des Neuen Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast am Düsseldorfer Ehrenhof , ZDF collection, Mainz.

literature

• Janssen, Peter . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 531 .

Web links

• Janssen's Art Gallery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Janssen, Peter ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 1, 2015) 
2. ↑ Certificate on the professional and exhibition ban , website in the janssenart.de portal , accessed on May 1, 2015