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Gerhard Adolf Janensch (24 April 1860, Zamborst – 2 February 1933, Berlin) was a German sculptor and medailleur.

Life

At the age of seventeen, he entered the Prussian Academy of Arts, where he studied under Fritz Schaper, Albert Wolff and Paul Thumann. In 1880, he started his own studio in Vienna, but returned to work with Schaper in 1883. The following year, he joined the German Artists' Association and received a stipendium to study in Rome for his work "Bacchant mit Panthern". He finally became self-sufficient in 1886 and began teaching at the Academy, where he remained until 1924. In addition to sculpture, he taught workshops on carpentry, blacksmithing, locksmithing and pottery. In 1892, he succeeded Wolff as head of the modelling class and was named a full member of the Academy in 1897.

One of his most prominent patrons was the entrepreneur and telecommunications pioneer, Robert Stock. The figure of a blacksmith that Janensch made for display at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition [de] in 1897 later became Stock's tomb sculpture. Other figures of industrial workers (foundrymen, glass-blowers, boilermakers etc.) were a featured display in the "Art and Technology" exhibition, held at the Museum Folkwang in 1928.

Other selected major works

• The Johannes Bugenhagen Monument in Wittenberg (Bust, 1894).
• The statue of Asmus Jacob Carstens in the Altes Museum, Berlin.
• A figure of Carl Friedrich Gauss on the Potsdam Bridge in Berlin (melted during World War II)
• The Heinrich Schüchtermann Monument in Dortmund
• Der Große Kurfürst in der Jugend ("The Great Elector in Youth"), a monument for Prince (later Elector) Friedrich Wilhelm (shown with his dog), in Küstrin.

References

1. Janensch, Gerhard (Adolf G.). In: Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Vol. Band XVIII, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1925, pgs. 382–383.

Further reading

• Gerhard Janensch. In: Hans Vollmer: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des XX. Jahrhunderts. Vol.2. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1955, pg.528
• Exhibition catalog, "Ethos und Pathos – Die Berliner Bildhauerschule 1786–1914" – Skulpturengalerie – Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, ISBN 3-7861-1598-2, pgs. 41, 274, 333, 347 and 489; also ISBN 3-7861-1597-4, pgs.133–135.
• Klaus Türk: Mensch und Arbeit. 400 Jahre Geschichte der Arbeit in der bildenden Kunst (Men and Work: 400 years of Work in the Visual Arts). The Eckhart G. Grohman Collection at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. VMSOE Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2003, ISBN 3-89861-209-0, pgs.153, 186.
• Exhibition catalog, "Kunst und Technik 1928", in the Folkwang Museum. W. Girardet Verlag, Essen 1928, pgs.99/100.
• Georg Holländer: Die technische Landschaft. Guide to an exhibition by the Niederrheinischen Industrie- und Handelskammer. City of Duisburg, 1995, pg.11.

External links

• Arcadja Auctions: Smaller figures by Janensch
• Brief Biography @ Historismus.net

• 1860 births
• 1933 deaths
• Prussian Academy of Arts alumni
• 20th-century German sculptors
• 20th-century German male artists
• German male sculptors
• 19th-century German sculptors
• Artists from the Province of Pomerania
• People from Złotów County