Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen

Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen (born June 21, 1816 in Jübberde , † June 21, 1894 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter , draftsman and engraver of the Düsseldorf School of Painting and co-founder of the Malkasten artists' association .

Life

Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen was the son of the mayor , member of the state parliament of Hanover and farmer Weyert Janssen and Hille Meencken Wolters from Poghausen with a farm in Jübberde, on which he, like his eight siblings, helped out in his childhood. He was encouraged to draw early on by the decoratively painted tiles that decorated the stoves and walls in the rooms in East Friesland and the Ruppin picture sheets that were widespread at the time . Theodor Janssen started school around 1825, received private lessons in drawing and portrait painting as a teenager, and in 1835, after having received lessons in Latin, modern foreign languages and natural sciences, graduated from high school in 1835.

At the turn of the year 1835/36 Theodor Janssen went to the art academy in Düsseldorf , studied religious painting , history painting and drawing after antiquity and in 1837 switched to the engraving class founded by Ernst Carl Thelott , which Joseph von Keller continued. During the course of his studies he gave up his East Frisian first name and signed his works only as Theodor Janssen or with TW Theodor Janssen.

At the academy Janssen made friends with Johann Peter Hasenclever and undertook a six-week journey through Northern Italy to Venice and Switzerland with him and his painter colleague Johann Wilhelm Preyer in the autumn of 1839 . In the late autumn of the same year until March 1840, Theodor Janssen stayed in Munich on a grant , where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Peter von Cornelius .

Around 1843 Theodor Janssen married Laura (1822–1889), the sister of his friend Johann Peter Hasenclever in Remscheid . You chose Düsseldorf as your place of residence. With the German Revolution of 1848/1849 Janssen was one of the co-founders of the artists' association “Malkasten” with his brother-in-law Hasenclever . A friendship with the lyric poet Ferdinand Freiligrath arose from this time, in which since the beginning of the “March Revolution” democratically-minded citizens united in a Düsseldorf vigilante group . Like many Düsseldorf artist colleagues, he was also a member of a Düsseldorf Freemason lodge .

The engraving was the middle of the 19th century nor the continuous reproduction technology to spread the knowledge of paintings, including the works of the Düsseldorf School . Here the art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia often played the role of sponsor and at the same time also a client and distributor of graphics . However, Janssen's re-engravings did not generate enough income to support the family of eight. He and his wife Laura had eight children, six of whom survived, two girls and four boys. Theodor Janssen tried to sell his oil paintings and drawings on trips to the Rhineland and the Netherlands. Between 1852 and 1856 he left Düsseldorf several times to earn money with portraits.

In 1867, Academy Director Eduard Bendemann certified him as a drawing teacher at grammar schools and painting schools. From Easter 1868 onwards, Theodor Janssen was able to teach drawing at the Luisenschule . Until the end of the 1880s he practiced the teaching profession. Increasing blindness forced him to resign and give up painting. Most recently he lived at Kölner Strasse 22 in Düsseldorf.

Honor

In 1851 Janssen received two awards for the sheet "The Candidate Jobs in the Exam", published in 1844 by the Düsseldorf book and art dealer Julius Buddeus , based on paintings by Johann Peter Hasenclever in Pictures for the Jobsiade . Janssen had the engraving “His Majesty the King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Dedicated to Prussia by the engraver ". He also received the Prussian "Great Gold Medal" and the same award from the Kingdom of Hanover .

family

Portrait of Johann Peter Hasenclever, TW Theodor Janssen, 1842

Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen is the first artist in an important family of artists. He was the father of the art professor and academy director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy Johann Peter Theodor Janssen (1844–1908), the sculptor and art professor Karl Janssen (1855–1927) and the architect Theodor Janssen (1846–1886), as well as the great-grandfather of the Düsseldorf painter and Berlin art professor Peter Janssen .

Works (selection)

1843: The giant Goliath etching after Johann Peter Hasenclever
1844: Jobs returning from university to Johann Peter Hasenclever
1844: The candidate Jobs in the exam after Johann Peter Hasenclever
1844: Jobs as schoolmaster after Johann Peter Hasenclever
1850: Rescue from the shipwreck after Rudolf Jordan
1861: Luther burns the bull of excommunication , copper engraving after Carl Friedrich Lessing
Portrait of Ferdinand Freiligrath , pencil drawing, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
Columbus in front of the high council in Salamanca , copper engraving after Emanuel Leutze

literature

Janssen, Theodor (Tamme Weyert Th.) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 405-406 .
Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 , p. 176.
Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , Volume 7, Gründ, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7000-3025-7 , p. 478.
Sabine Heissler: Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen. In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland Volume 6, Aurich 2007, pp. 236–238 ( ostfriesenelandschaft.de PDF).
Sven-Wieland Staps: Janssen, Theodor (Tamme Weyert Theodor) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 77, de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-023182-3 , p. 340.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Isabella Haustein: Dutch tiles in Northwest Germany , on Kulturportal Nordwest, accessed on October 6, 2015.
^ Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen and Laura Hasenclever, family tree
^ Civil status of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. Died. 5th: Laura Jansen, b. Hasenclever, 67 years old, wife, Kölnerstr. In the Düsseldorfer Volksblatt. (No. 307) of November 11, 1889 ( ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )
↑ Theodor Janssen drawing teacher since Easter 1868 , in Viktor Uellner: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule and the associated teacher training institute in Düsseldorf Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the institute on October 30, 1887. Voss, Düsseldorf 1887.
^ Theodor Janssen, drawing teacher , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1887, part 2: Alphabetical evidence of business and tradespeople, doctors and artists.
^ Engraver Theodor Janssen , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1879; Theodor Janssen, drawing teacher a. DE , on the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1893.
↑ Pictures for the Jobsiade based on paintings and drawings by JP Hasenclever, engraved by TW Theodor Janssen
^ Engraving by TW Theodor Janssen The candidate Jobs in the exam . Inscription in the plate: “To His Majesty the King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Dedicated to Prussia by the copperplate engraver ”( janssenart.de ).
^ Stephan Kotthaus: The artistic roots . Theodor Janssen and his descendants , accessed on October 6, 2015.
↑ "Luther burns the bull", based on the painting by CF Lessing., Copper engraving by TW Th. Janssen. PI. 64/74 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de );
D. Bernhard Rogge: Illustrated history of the Reformation in Germany . Sales organization for Christian works of art, M. Zulauf, Hersfeld 1909, pp. 104-105 "Luther burns the bull of excommunication" based on the painting by CF Lessing., Copper engraving by TW Th. Janssen from 1861.

personal data
SURNAME	Janssen, Tamme Weyert Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Janssen, Theodor (stage name); Janssen, Tamme Weyerd Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jübberde
DATE OF DEATH	June 21, 1894
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[1] Isabella Haustein: Dutch tiles in Northwest Germany , on Kulturportal Nordwest, accessed on October 6, 2015.

[2] Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen and Laura Hasenclever, family tree

[3] Civil status of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. Died. 5th: Laura Jansen, b. Hasenclever, 67 years old, wife, Kölnerstr. In the Düsseldorfer Volksblatt. (No. 307) of November 11, 1889 ( ub.uni-duesseldorf.de )

[4] Theodor Janssen drawing teacher since Easter 1868 , in Viktor Uellner: On the history of the municipal Luisenschule and the associated teacher training institute in Düsseldorf Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the institute on October 30, 1887. Voss, Düsseldorf 1887.

[5] Theodor Janssen, drawing teacher , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1887, part 2: Alphabetical evidence of business and tradespeople, doctors and artists.

[6] Engraver Theodor Janssen , address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf for 1879; Theodor Janssen, drawing teacher a. DE , on the address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1893.

[7] Pictures for the Jobsiade based on paintings and drawings by JP Hasenclever, engraved by TW Theodor Janssen

[8] Engraving by TW Theodor Janssen The candidate Jobs in the exam . Inscription in the plate: “To His Majesty the King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Dedicated to Prussia by the copperplate engraver ”( janssenart.de ).

[9] Stephan Kotthaus: The artistic roots . Theodor Janssen and his descendants , accessed on October 6, 2015.

[10] "Luther burns the bull", based on the painting by CF Lessing., Copper engraving by TW Th. Janssen. PI. 64/74 ( digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de );
D. Bernhard Rogge: Illustrated history of the Reformation in Germany . Sales organization for Christian works of art, M. Zulauf, Hersfeld 1909, pp. 104-105 "Luther burns the bull of excommunication" based on the painting by CF Lessing., Copper engraving by TW Th. Janssen from 1861.