Jens Adolf Jerichau
Danish sculptor
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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... Wikipedia
Born: April 17, 1816, Assens, Denmark
Died: July 25, 1883 (age 67 years), Copenhagen, Denmark
Children: Harald Jerichau, Thorald Jerichau, and Holger H. Jerichau
Grandchild: Jens Adolf Jerichau
Periods: Realism, Neoclassicism, and Naturalism
On view: SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst
Award: Thorvaldsen Medal (1847)
