Adolf Jahn

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Adolf Jahn; photograph by Hermann Böll (1890s)
Nathan the Wise

Adolf Ferdinand Walter Jahn (17 December 1858,

Stettin - 19 December 1941, Halle
) was a German sculptor.

Life and work

His father, Carl Wilhelm, was a merchant who originally came from

Viktor Tilgner, then returned to Berlin, where he worked in the studios of Max Kruse, Peter Breuer and Joseph Kaffsack [de
].

He served as a teacher himself; from 1885 at the Royal Prussian Technical College for the Metal Industry [de] in Iserlohn, and from 1892 at Technische Hochschule Berlin (now Technische Universität Berlin), where he taught a class together with Otto Geyer. The sculptor, Lilli Wislicenus, was one of their students.

In 1890, in Vienna, he married Emilie Bertha Porsch (1859-1905), daughter of the lawyer, Ignaz Porsch. They settled in Berlin, where he opened his own workshop in 1891. Their only child, Walter Hugo Otto, was born in 1893. He remained unmarried after Emilie's death and raised Walter alone.

statuettes were his main focus. From 1893 to 1918, he was an annual participant in the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung, where he presented figures, busts and reliefs in plaster, marble and wood, as well as bronze. Among his best-known works is the statuette of "Nathan the Wise", from the drama of the same name by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. It has been reproduced in various sizes, in both bronze and alabaster, and in various colors. After 1913, it was produced in porcelain by "Royal Copenhagen
".

He retired from all of his public activities after World War I. From 1934 he lived with his son, Walter, and his family in Halle, where he died at the age of eighty-two. He was interred at the Gertraudenfriedhof [de] there.

Sources

  • "Jahn, Adolf", In: Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol. 18: Hubatsch–Ingouf, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1925
  • Harold Bermann: Bronzes, Sculptors & Founders 1800–1930, Vol.4, Abage, Chicago 1980, pgs.950 and 1128
    ISBN 978-0-88740-703-1
  • James Mackay: Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors' Club, 1977, pg.198
  • Brigitte Hüfler: "Beiträge mit Kurzbiographien Berliner Bildhauer", In: Peter Bloch, Sibylle Einholz, Jutta von Simson: Ethos und Pathos. Die Berliner Bildhauerschule 1786–1914, Vol.2, Gebrüder Mann, 1990,
    ISBN 3-7861-1598-2
  • (in German) Eberhard Kasten: Jahn, Adolf. In:
    ISBN 978-3-11-023182-3
    , S. 195

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