Johann Jakob Gensler
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Jakob Gensler (born January 21, 1808 in Hamburg, Germany, January 26, 1845) was a German painter.
The Members of the Hamburg Artist's Club
Gensler studied in his hometown with Gerdt Hardorff the Elder, from 1824 to 1826 in Eutin with Wilhelm Tischbein and later in Dresden, Munich and Vienna, from where he returned 1831 to Hamburg. His paintings, mostly folk scenes, especially from the immediate vicinity of Hamburg, are characterized by great naturalness. He was a founding member of the Hamburger Künstlerverein of 1832.
From his etched leaves the sailors and the marginal drawings for the ballad The noble boy and the milleress for the work Lieder und Bilder (Hamburg 1844) found the most favor. He also made ornaments in the technique of medieval miniature painting for the Prussians of Hamburg, Saxony-Meiningen, Bremen, Nassau, the Netherlands and England. Gensler died in Hamburg on 26 January 1845.
His older brother, Günther, born in Hamburg in 1803, portrait painter, died on May 28, 1884; The younger brother, Martin, born 1811 in Hamburg, was an architecture and genre painter and died on 15 December 1881.
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