Jens Adolf Jerichau

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Jens Adolf Jerichau whose full name was Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau, (7 April 1816 in Assens - 25 July 1883) was a Danish sculptor.

He received his art education initially at the Academy in Copenhagen and from 1839 in Rome, establishing his calling through a bas-relief on a frieze in a royal castle in Christiansborg near Copenhagen, depicting the marriage of Alexander the Great to Roxane.

His collosal sculpture Hercules and Hebe as well as a marble statue of Penelope are in a strong classical style. He created a splendid depiction of nature in a sculpture depicting a panther attacking a hunter.

As a result of a commission from the Princess of Prussia, he produced a depiction of the resurrection of Christ. His Bathing Women is also splendid. He died on 25 July, 1883. His wife, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, was a painter as was his son Harald Jerichau.

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• Nicolaj Bøgh, Erindringer af og om Jens Adolf Jerichau (1884).