Ulfert Janssen

Ulfert Janssen (born December 11, 1878 in Bilawe near Glogau , † February 19, 1956 in Munich ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Janssen studied from 1899 to 1902 at the Technical University of Braunschweig and at the Munich Art Academy . In 1911 he became professor for modeling and life drawing at the architecture department of the Technical University of Stuttgart . During the Second World War Janssen was regarded as an “artist in action” and took part in numerous exhibitions during the Third Reich .

Works

Janssen's works include the Century Fountain in Essen from 1907 and the Ceres Fountain in the Stuttgart Market Hall from 1916 as well as the twelve medallions with the portraits of Bismarck, Kant, Leibnitz, Leonardo da Vinci, Luther and Plato as well as Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller and Uhland at the Bonatzbau at the University of Tübingen . The pillar figures Prometheus and Heracles as well as the caryatid reliefs in the rear gallery, the Roman she-wolf and the goddess Minerva above the entrance doors of the auditorium of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich are also by him, as well as some of the sculptures at the Johannes Kepler Gymnasium in Bad Cannstatt . He also created a bronze bust by the sculptor Hermann Bleeker . In 1935 the Carl Peters monument was erected by Janssen in Hanover . Janssen created the rich facade decorations on two outstanding buildings in Apolda , Thuringia , the town house built in 1910 and the Sparkasse from 1926.

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  Fountain of the century in Essen

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  Bonatz building at the University of Tübingen

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  The Karl Peters Monument in Hanover, created by Janssen in 1935 , today with a warning plaque against colonialism

literature

• Hermann Missenharter: The sculptor Ulfert Janssen. In: Württemberg. Swabian monthly books in the service of the people and homeland . Vol. 4, 1932, pp. 242-246.
• Janssen, Ulfert . 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. 406 .

Web links

Commons : Ulfert Janssen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography at LEO-BW

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ingeborg Bloth: German Art 1933 to 1945 in Braunschweig. Olms, Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-487-10914-X , p. 279.
2. ↑ guenter-pilger.de
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ stuttgart.de
6. ^ Gerhard Bellinger , Brigitte Regulator-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstraße and its most important residents. BoD, 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 , p. 181.
7. ↑ hist.uni-hannover.de
8. ^ Thomas Bahr, Karl-Heinz Bettenstädt: The town house. In: Apoldaer Heimat. Issue 23, 2005, pp. 1-16.
9. ^ Thomas Bahr: History of the savings banks at the Brückenborn. In: Apoldaer Heimat. Issue 24, 2006, pp. 1–21.