Karl Janssen
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Karl Janssen (29 May 1855 — 2 December 1927) was a German sculptor working in the Baroque revival tradition; he was born and died in Düsseldorf.
Biography
Born in a family of artists, his father
which?
] (1883) for his monument in the Nordfriedhof.
In 1897, together with
Second World War
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Since 1893 he had been teaching as a professor, taking the chair of the late August Wittig, who had been his teacher. Among his outstanding pupils were Bernhard Hoetger and Wilhelm Lehmbruck.
Following the
First World War he was commissioned by the Henkel company to sculpt a war memorial to fallen Henkel workers, to be erected at the Henkel works in Düsseldorf-Holthausen. His last well-known work was also for the Henkel family, a mourning figure in Art Deco
style for the family mausoleum (1925).
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