Victor Emil Janssen
Victor Emil Janssen (born June 11, 1807 in Hamburg ; † September 23, 1845 there ) was a German painter of the late Romantic period .
Life
Victor Emil Janssen was the illegitimate son of the wine merchant's daughter Christine Maria Ahlers (1779–1851) and the merchant's son Karl Raetke (1756–1814), both from Hamburg. He was a student at the Johanneum School of Scholars in Hamburg and attended Siegfried Detlev Bendixen's drawing school from 1823–24 . He joined the circle of friends around the Speckter family of painters . In August 1827 Janssen went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich to study with Peter von Cornelius and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld . Here he joined the Hamburg painters Carl Koch (1806–1900) and Friedrich Wasmann (1805–1886) and was connected to the Hamburg artists' colony in Munich. With Wasmann he went to Rome to see Friedrich Overbeck in autumn 1833 .
When he returned to Munich at the end of 1833, his emotional distress worsened. He suffered from bone tuberculosis. Although he was still working with HM Hess (1798–1863) on the frescoes in the Bonifazius Basilica in Munich, he soon had to give up the order.
Before leaving for Hamburg, Janssen destroyed most of his works in 1843. He gave some to Carl Koch. He bequeathed the rest to Friedrich Wasmann, in whose estate they were rediscovered.
In the Ohlsdorf cemetery , in the area of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery near the main entrance to the cemetery, the painter's collective grave commemorates Victor Emil Janssen.
After Janssen is Emil Janssen-Straße in Barmbek-Nord named.
Self-portraits
In 1830 Emil Janssen was portrayed by the painter Franz Heesche .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2019: Hamburg School - The 19th Century Rediscovered (April 12 to July 14), Hamburger Kunsthalle
literature
- Renata Klée Gobert: Janssen, Victor Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 344 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ludwig Laher : Self-act in front of the easel. Narrative. Haymon, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-85218-267-0 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Heesche, Der Maler Victor Emil Janssen (1830) , accessed on December 17, 2013
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Janssen, Victor Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1845 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |