Richard Janthur
Richard Janthur (born April 12, 1883 in Zerbst ; died March 22, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German drawing teacher, graphic artist, book illustrator and painter.
life and work
Janthur attended the art school in Breslau and moved to Berlin in 1908, where he completed his training as a drawing teacher in 1915 and started teaching. From 1917 he also qualified for teaching at secondary schools. In 1944 he ended his school service with an early retirement at his own request.
Janthur began his artistic career as a painter, but later concentrated mainly on graphics and book illustration. His drawing style was shaped by Expressionism , where he "let figures, animals and plants flow together in their movements and gestures to form a moving line ornament and thus achieved a rhythmic structure of the surface." Since 1911 he has participated in the exhibition of the Berlin Secession . In the same year he was financed a study trip to Greece by Count Harry Kessler . In 1912, together with Ludwig Meidner and Jacob Steinhardt, he founded the artist group “Die Pathetiker”, which was able to exhibit in the Sturm Gallery that same year . He later joined the November Group, which was founded in Berlin, for a short time , and in 1919 he was a member of the Art Council. He also devoted himself to the arts and crafts and began painting again in the 1940s.
Works
Helga Kliemann judges the works of Richard Janthur that “the painterly oeuvre that has been preserved proves that the greater importance is to be ascribed to his graphic work, whose artistic rank is also achieved by his watercolors, of which unfortunately only a few are still accessible.”
The book illustrations include illustrations of the following works:
- Pantschatantra - fables from the Indian love life . Gurlitt, Berlin 1919
- Gilgamesh - A story from the ancient Orient . Gurlitt, Berlin 1919 (designed as a whole by Georg E. Burckhardt)
- Jonathan Swift : The Capitain Lemuel Gulliver's Journey to the Land of the Houyhnhnms . Gurlitt, Berlin 1919
- Rabindranath Tagore : Fourteen Poems . Schnabel, Berlin 1920
- Jayadeva : Gita Gowinda or The Love of Krishna and Radha . Schnabel, Berlin 1920 (translated by Friedrich Rückert )
- The roses of Shiraz - Persian love poems . Gurlitt, Berlin 1921 (translated by Alfred Richard Meyer and Ernst Ulitzsch )
- Kalidasa : The Indian Spring - Sanskrit stanzas of the ritual amhara . Gurlitt, Berlin 1921 (translated by Alfred Richard Meyer and Ernst Ulitzsch)
- Rudyard Kipling : The Jungle Book . Gurlitt, Berlin 1921
- The flower boat of power - Chinese love poems . Gurlitt, Berlin 1921 (translated by Alfred Richard Meyer and Ernst Ulitzsch)
- Bess Brenck-Kalischer : The Mill - A Cosmea . Leon Hirsch, Berlin 1922
- Daniel Defoe : The life and the very unbelievable incidents of the world-famous Engelländers Robinson Crusoe . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1922
- Prosper Mérimée : Tamango . Franz Schneider, Berlin 1923 (translated by Franz Werner Schmidt )
- The gazelle . Franz Schneider, Berlin 1923
- Apulejus : the golden donkey . Franz Schneider, Berlin 1924 (published based on an earlier transfer by Franz Werner Schmidt)
- Hans Heyck : By hostile lock in the fatherland . Franz Schneider, Leipzig 1934
literature
- Helga Kliemann: Janthur, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 346 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Janthur in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard Janthur on artnet
supporting documents
- ↑ a b c Helga Kliemann: Janthur, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 346 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ Literature by and about Richard Janthur in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janthur, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German drawing teacher, graphic artist and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zerbst |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1956 |
| Place of death | Berlin |