Adolf Jahn ‘Nathan The Wise’ Bronz Heykel 63cm

Adolf Jahn

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Doğum tarihi: 17 Aralık 1858, Szczecin, Polonya
Ölüm tarihi ve yeri: 19 Aralık 1941, Halle, Almanya

Adolf Ferdinand Walter Jahn (* 17. December 1858 in Stettin; † 19. December 1941 in Halle (Saale)) was a German sculptor.

Life

Adolf Jahn was the youngest of three children of the couple Carl Wilhelm Jahn and Catharina Friederike Wilhelmine Jahn geb. Burchard. The father was a merchant in Szczecin and came from Crossen an der Oder, the mother was the daughter of Joachim Friedrich Burchard, teacher and Coaster at the Berlin Garrison Church and came from Berlin. After the death of his parents, Adolf Jahn grew up in Berlin with his father’s sister. At the age of 19 he came to the Berlin Art Academy, where he was a student from 1877 to 1881. studied sculpture by Albert Wolff and Fritz Schaper. He received several awards during his studies. Later he was awarded the golden medal for art and science at the order of Frederick. In the years 1882 to 1884, Adolf Jahn in Vienna, student of the sculptors Anton Schmid Gruber and Viktor Tilgner. In Berlin, he worked in the studios of the sculptor Max Kruse, Peter Breuer and Joseph Kaffsack.

Adolf Jahn also took on teaching activities himself, in 1885 at the Royal Prussian Technical School for the metal industry in Iserlohn and from 1891 as a lecturer for Sculpture at the Technical University of Charlottenburg together with Otto Geyer. The sculptor Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg was a student of Adolf Jahn. The sculptor Else Fürst was a student in his studio in Berlin.

In 1890 Adolf Jahn married Emilie Bertha Porsch (*28 April 1859 in Znaim in Moravia; † 13 June 1905 in (Berlin-) Schöneberg), a daughter of Dr. jur. Ignaz Porsch and Josefa Porsch born. Palka. He took his wife with him to Berlin, where he became self-employed with his own workshop from 1891.

In addition to monumental paintings, the focus of his work was mainly on portraiture Bustes and bronze statues. He fed from 1893 to 1918, the annual Great Berlin art exhibition with numerous statues, groups, busts and bas-Reliefs in Bronze, marble, plaster and wood.

Adolf Jahn’s most famous work is the Statuette “Nathan der Weise” after the Drama of the same name by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. It was reproduced in Bronze and Alabaster in different sizes from 1899 by the Bronzegießerei Aktiengesellschaft Gladenbeck Berlin, formerly H. Gladenbeck & Sohn, from 1909 with patented process of ‘Pyrochrom’ also in different colors and from 1913 by the “Royal Danish porcelain factory, Copenhagen” also in porcelain. It is still offered on auctions today.

In 1893 the only son Walter Hugo Otto was born. After the death of his wife, he raised his son alone. Adolf Jahn worked as a sculptor until after the first World War. Since 1934 he lived with his son and his family in Halle an der Saale, where he died in 1941. He was buried at the Gertrauden Cemetery in Halle/Saale.

Work

Statuette
Nathan the wise (1893)
Shylock
Othello
Water bearer (1897)
Sailor (1898)
Mother Love (1900)
Dante
Alfred Krupp
Martin Luther
Wilhelm II as a Crusader (1898)
Character “verstossen” (1905)
Character “Fate” (1906)
Still picture with children (1910)
Faust (1915)
New Seeds (1917)
The Battle (1918)