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Data about the Life and Work of Peter Janssen *


Video about the artistic roots
 


The father, Tamme Weyert Theodor, moves from East Frisia to Duesseldorf: engraver of the Duesseldorf Keller school, became famous through his engravings of the "Jobsiade" by Hasenclever;
Peter Janssen enherited artistic talents both from his father's and his mother's side;
his brother Theodor (1846-1886) architect, his brother Karl (1855-1925) sculptor (a.o. teacher of the young Lembruck).



 

   

12.12.1844

(Johann) Peter (Theodor) Janssen is born in Duesseldorf as the first son of  Theodor (1816- 1894) and Laura (1822- 1889) nee Hasenclever (Uncle: J.P.Hasenclever, 1810-1853). Peter visits a private school; first artistic training by his father and the animal painter Lachenwitz.
 

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1859
Joins the Royal Art Academy in Duesseldorf; Janssen becomes a student of Carl Müllers, Carl Sohn and Eduard Bendemann
1864
Travels to Holland, Belgium
1865
Spends time in southern Germany (Munich); performs portrait commissions in Dresden
1865/69
Produces his first independant oil painting: Peter Denying Christ. This painting has been re-aquired by the artist's family.
It is now being conserved in the USA. This process is  documented here.
 
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1867/68
Participation in the competition for the Beteiligung Janssens an dem Wettbewerb um die ADecoration of the town hall of Krefeld (2nd and 3rd tender); Janssen is the first winner (Nov. 1859)
 

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1869/70
Aders finances Janssen's stay in Munich: Finalization of the presentation for Krefeld
1870/72
Mural for the Bremen stock exchange: Colonization of the Baltic Provinces by the Hansa -1201
1873
Finalization of the Krefeld Cycle
 

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5.9.1873

 

Marriage with Constanze, nee. Gottschalk (four children; eldest grandson Peter Janssen, born 29.03.1906, German Painter, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin)
 


 

1874
Oil painting: Prayer of the Swiss before the Battle at Sempach
 

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1874/75
Decoration of the second Zweiten Cornelius-Hall of the National Gallery Berlin.
1875
 
Janssen accepts the assignment for the town hall of Erfurt (preparations).
1877
 
Janssen is appointed professor for the elementary class of the Royal Academy of Arts in Duesseldorf ; Establishment of a nature drawing calls by Janssen.
1878
Completion of the mural cycle, intterupted by Commons and Kehren, at the auditorium of the teacher's seminar in Moers.
1878-1881
Decoration of the town hall of Erfurt
 
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1880

 

Oil painting: Inspector of the Academy Holthausen
Travels to Italy
Small Gold Medal at the Fourth General German Art Exhibition in Duesseldorf
1881
Planing works for the frieze in the Duesseldorf Academy of Arts
Travel to Italy, including Sicily
1882
Austrian Gold Medal at the International Art Exhibition in Vienna
1883
Oil painting: Education of Bacchus; Great Gold Medal Munich
Oil painting: Field Marshal Herwarth von Bittenfeld
Travel to  Holland
1884
Mural: The Battle of Fehrbellin (Zeughaus Berlin).
 

23.1.1885
Appointed Member of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin.
1885/86
Small mural for  the Masonic Lodge  St. Johns in Duesseldorf.
1887-1893
WMurals and Ceyling Paintings for the Auditorium of the Royal Academy of Arts in Duesseldorf.
 

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1887
Travels to England, Scotland, Belgium.
1888
Mural: Friedrich the Great and Ziethen after the Battle of Torgau (Zeughaus Berlin)
 

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1890
Mural: The Battle of Hohenfriedberg (Zeughaus Berlin)
Oil painting: Portrait of Andreas Achenbach
Travel to Italy up to Pästum
 

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1891
Travel to Paris and northern France
Travel to Belgium
1892
Order for the
Cycle of Murals of the Auditorium of the University of Marburg
 

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1893

 


Oil Painting: Walter Dodde and the Western Farmers in the Battle of Worringen: Great Gold Medal of the Great Berline Art Exhibition.

Appointment as Royal Director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Duesseldorf.
 


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1894
Travel to Austria (including Vienna) and southern Germany.
5.6.1895
Appointment as Director General of the Royal Academy of Arts in Duesseldorf.
1895
Travel to Italy.
1895-1903
Execution of the
Murals at the Auditotium of the University of Marburg
 

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1896
Opening of the Auditorium of the Academy of Arts in Duesseldorf.
Travels to southern France and Spain.
1900
Janssen accepts the commission for the mural at the town hall Elberfeld (Wuppertal).
1902
Oil painting: They all follow the Star
Detail Study
 

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1903
Completion of the Elberfeld mural.
13.11.1904
Janssen is appointed honorary doctor of the medical faculty by the Marburg University.
1906
Oil painting: Fritz Roeber surrounded by his employees for the Horticultural Exhibition Duesseldorf 1904.
1905-1907
Murals for the Bower of Schloß Burg a.d. Wupper
 

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 19.2.1908
Peter Janssen died in Düsseldorf
* Source:
Dietrich Bieber: Peter Janssen as Historian Painter
About the Duesseldorf School of Painting of the late 19th Century
Rudolf Habelt Verlag GmbH - Bonn - 1979

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