Jens Adolf Jerichau
Sculpture, Visual Artist
1816 – 1883
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Who was Jens Adolf Jerichau?
Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau was a Danish sculptor. He belonged to the generation immediately after Bertel Thorvaldsen, for whom he worked briefly in Rome, but gradually moved away from the static Neoclassicism he inherited from him and towards a more dynamic and realistic style.He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and its director from 1857 to 1863.
He was married to the painter Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann.
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- Born
- Apr 17, 1816
Assens - Also known as
- Йерихау, Йенс Адольф
- Spouses
- Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann
(1846 - )
- Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann
- Nationality
- Denmark
- Education
- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
- Lived in
- Assens
- Died
- Jul 25, 1883
Copenhagen
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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