Johann Peter Theodor Janssen (12 December 1844, Düsseldorf –19 February 1908, Düsseldorf) was a German historical painter.

Biography

Janssen was born in Düsseldorf, son of the engraver Tamme Weyert Theodor Janssen (1817–1894), by whom he was first instructed before studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Eduard Bendemann. He is principally known through a series of decorative works whose monumental style and sound naturalism won him a reputation as one of the foremost historical painters of his time. He became a professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1877 and its director in 1895, and was elected a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1885. In Berlin, he worked also for Emil Hünten. He was the brother of sculptor Karl Janssen, whose works include the in Düsseldorf, and "Steinklopferin" ("Stonebreaking Woman"), which is owned by the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Janssen's grandson Peter Tamme Weyert Janssen (1906 –1979) was also a painter.

Works

Janssen's significant murals include: Some of Janssen's significant oil paintings:

Selected paintings

Sources