Václav Jansa

Václav Jansa (1896)

Václav Jansa, German Wenzel Jansa (born October 22, 1859 in German Zlatnik (Slatinice), Brüx district , Bohemia ; † June 29, 1913 in Černošice near Prague), was a Bohemian painter and draftsman .

Life

Jansa studied at the Art Academy in Prague with Antonín Lhota (1812–1908) and then at the Vienna Academy with Eduard von Lichtenfels and Leopold Carl Müller . From 1891 he worked in Prague as a painter and draftsman.

His work includes a variety of landscapes, especially of the Giant Mountains . In addition, he created around 250 watercolors of historical monuments in Prague and cities in Bohemia , Hungary , Dalmatia , the French Riviera and took part in exhibitions in Prague .

Jansa created several large pictures together with other painters. These include the 8.5 × 10 m diorama The Slaughter of the Saxons under Hrubá Skála (Czech Pobití Sasíků pod Hrubou Skálou, also Bitva pod Hrubou Skálou ) designed by Mikoláš Aleš in 1895 for the Gallery of the Bohemian Paradise in Turnau , next to Aleš Jansa, Karel Vítězslav Mašek and Vojtěch Bartoněk worked and it is one of the largest oil paintings in Europe.

Together with Luděk Marold , he created the Panorama Battle of Lipan (Bitva u Lipan) for the pavilion on the Prague exhibition grounds.

literature

• Jansa, Wenzel. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1965, p. 76.
• Heribert Sturm : Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands, edited on behalf of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Volume II, Wenzel Jansa Page 28, R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1984, with further references, ISBN 3-486-52551-4 .
• Wiener Zeitung (Abendpost) of June 30, 1913 with an obituary for Wenzel Jansa.

Web links

Commons : Václav Jansa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography (czech)
• Birth entry ( State Regional Archives in Leitmeritz )
• Literature by and about Václav Jansa in the catalog of the German National Library