Biography

Danish sculptor whose full name was Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau. He received his art education initially at the Academy in Copenhagen and from 1839 in Rome, becoming a pupil of his distinguished compatriot Thorvaldsen. He established 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 colossal 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. A number of his most famous works were damaged or ruined in a fire in the Christiansborg Palace in 1884.