Janesch Albert (1889-1973) - Andalusische Landschaft

Albert Janesch (* June 12, 1889 in Vienna; died May 10, 1973 in the same place) was an Austrian portrait and genre painter.

Life
Janesch studied from 1904 to 1912 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; his teachers were Siegmund L’Allemand and Franz Rumpler.

During World War I, Janesch was drafted on October 20, 1915 as a war painter into the War Press Headquarters of the k.u.k. Army. He initially worked in Belgrade, then Trieste and, subsequently, until autumn 1916, at various sections of the Isonzo Front. From December 1917 to June 1918 he served on the Turkish Front.[1] In 1916 he received the 1st prize of the War Memorial Competition. He remained listed in the rolls of the War Press Headquarters until November 1918.[2]

During World War II, Janesch again served as a war painter, working on the south and west coasts of France, in Russia and Greece.[3] In a letter to the chief editor of the NSDAP magazine Der Hoheitsträger[4], he explained in 1941 his painting concept The Illegal Fighter and detailed what prompted him in 1932 to submit an application for membership in the NSDAP ("the cleansing of Vienna’s art life from Jewish and Masonic influence"). He effectively joined the party only on February 18, 1933 (Member No. 1,600,275).[5][6] Janesch was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937, 1938, 1940 and 1941. There he mainly showed war scenes of the Wehrmacht and, in 1941, portraits of Nazi military leaders Karl Eibl and Friedrich Siebert. Two of the paintings were purchased by Hitler.

After the war Janesch received the commission to fresco the “Iron Hall” of the newly erected artillery hall (Arsenal Building 2) of the Museum of Military History. In 1952/53 he executed the fresco “The Artillery of Emperor Maximilian I,” which drew on a painting by Jörg Köler as a model. The frescoes were completed on March 25, 1954.[7]

Dimensions:
Without frame: Width: 80 cm × Height: 90 cm; with frame: Width: 95 cm × Height: 105 cm