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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableJacob Gensler was an idiosyncratic artist. His contemporaries of the early 19th century called him a realist, but in his work resonates a premonition of impressionism. He had a very special way of capturing nature and people pictorially. Light and dreamy, yet serious and detailed. Realistic, with a touch of exaggeration and loose brushwork. His work continued to surprise his audience and other artists. Gensler developed his own techniques and drew inspiration from various teachers, rather than just following the artistic fashions of his time. He learned his craft in a small academy in northern Germany, where he was taught to study nature carefully. Later, in Munich, he refined his landscape paintings and also developed into an excellent portrait painter. Finally, he moved back to the north, to Hamburg, where most of his works were created. Although he attended various academies and made good contacts in the art world, he never really wanted to commit himself to one genre. So he always sat between artistic stools and worked in his own way. This is exactly what makes his works so interesting to this day.
Gensler saw painting as a holistic interplay of color and light. His technical experiments focused on accurately capturing the atmosphere of a landscape. The air and time of day, the breeze of the wind, even the temperature were to be made perceptible to the viewer so that he could mentally find himself in the scene depicted. The perspective he adopted was often expansive and generous. The sea spreads across the canvas, framed by dunes and clouds, drenched in the golden light of the morning sun. Sandy paths wind between gnarled trees and rocks in the distance. Wind blowing through grass and branches, blurring parts of the depicted landscape. He has sharply outlined some objects so that they stand out, while other aspects of his subjects are only indistinctly depicted and sometimes even unfinished. As a result, his landscape paintings appear dynamic and lively.
The portraits that Gensler painted in oil and watercolor follow a similar principle. They often depict scenes in the midst of the German working life of his time. Fishermen mending their nets; girls in the tavern sitting pensively at the counter during their break; old men and women still pursuing their craft with skillful grips. His subjects are always in motion. They are honestly depicted, with wrinkles, blemishes, and quiet emotions written all over their faces. Yet his portraits are not harsh, but empathetic and genuine. Gensler managed to capture and bring out the magic of the everyday, natural world without being overly romantic. His gaze was that of a serious person who had an incredible sensitivity to the beauty of his surroundings.
Jacob Gensler was an idiosyncratic artist. His contemporaries of the early 19th century called him a realist, but in his work resonates a premonition of impressionism. He had a very special way of capturing nature and people pictorially. Light and dreamy, yet serious and detailed. Realistic, with a touch of exaggeration and loose brushwork. His work continued to surprise his audience and other artists. Gensler developed his own techniques and drew inspiration from various teachers, rather than just following the artistic fashions of his time. He learned his craft in a small academy in northern Germany, where he was taught to study nature carefully. Later, in Munich, he refined his landscape paintings and also developed into an excellent portrait painter. Finally, he moved back to the north, to Hamburg, where most of his works were created. Although he attended various academies and made good contacts in the art world, he never really wanted to commit himself to one genre. So he always sat between artistic stools and worked in his own way. This is exactly what makes his works so interesting to this day.
Gensler saw painting as a holistic interplay of color and light. His technical experiments focused on accurately capturing the atmosphere of a landscape. The air and time of day, the breeze of the wind, even the temperature were to be made perceptible to the viewer so that he could mentally find himself in the scene depicted. The perspective he adopted was often expansive and generous. The sea spreads across the canvas, framed by dunes and clouds, drenched in the golden light of the morning sun. Sandy paths wind between gnarled trees and rocks in the distance. Wind blowing through grass and branches, blurring parts of the depicted landscape. He has sharply outlined some objects so that they stand out, while other aspects of his subjects are only indistinctly depicted and sometimes even unfinished. As a result, his landscape paintings appear dynamic and lively.
The portraits that Gensler painted in oil and watercolor follow a similar principle. They often depict scenes in the midst of the German working life of his time. Fishermen mending their nets; girls in the tavern sitting pensively at the counter during their break; old men and women still pursuing their craft with skillful grips. His subjects are always in motion. They are honestly depicted, with wrinkles, blemishes, and quiet emotions written all over their faces. Yet his portraits are not harsh, but empathetic and genuine. Gensler managed to capture and bring out the magic of the everyday, natural world without being overly romantic. His gaze was that of a serious person who had an incredible sensitivity to the beauty of his surroundings.
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.jpg "Hamburg After the Fire by Jacob Gensler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-134640).jpg "Head of a Man, 1841 by Jacob Gensler")
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.jpg "Tirolese Smugglers, 1831 by Jacob Gensler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-569131).jpg "The Stone Wall in Sottorf, 1839 by Jacob Gensler")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-68379).jpg "A Woman from Blankenese, 1837 by Jacob Gensler")
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.jpg "Sunny Mountainous Panorama by Jacob Gensler")
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.jpg "Sulberg, Blankenese, 1836 by Jacob Gensler")
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.jpg "Design for a thanks document to Bremen from Hamburg, 1843 by Jacob Gensler")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-100792).jpg "The Vestry, 1835 by Jacob Gensler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-574387).jpg "Fisherman Mending a Net, 1834 by Jacob Gensler")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-44869).jpg "The Banks of the Elbe, 1840 by Jacob Gensler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-569124).jpg "Fishermen in Probstei, 1835 by Jacob Gensler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-571243).jpg "The Old Tree by Jacob Gensler")
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.jpg "Elstorf Churchyard, near Hamburg, 1837 by Jacob Gensler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-574388).jpg "Fishermens Cabins at the Hopesberg Beach, 1834 by Jacob Gensler")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-574390).jpg "Farmhouse Under Construction, 1829 by Jacob Gensler")
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.jpg "Study of Clouds with Mountain Tops, 1830 by Jacob Gensler")
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.jpg "The Old Armourer from Pahl, 1829 by Jacob Gensler")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-70283).jpg "A Beach on the Baltic Sea at Laboe, 1842 by Jacob Gensler")
.jpg "A Girl from Probsteier by Jacob Gensler")
 - (MeisterDrucke-91936).jpg "The Beach at Blankenese by Jacob Gensler")
.jpg "A Stockrose, 1827 by Jacob Gensler")