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Ernst Pasqual Jordan (22 January 1858, Hanover - 8 September 1924,
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Ernst Pasqual Jordan (22 January 1858, Hanover - 8 September 1924, Barsinghausen
Barsinghausen is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the Deister chain of hills approx. 20 km west of Hanover. Barsinghausen belongs to the historic landscape Calenberg Land and was first mentioned i ...
) was a German painter and art professor. He was the father of Pascual Jordan, one of the co-founders of quantum mechanics. Hugo Thielen: "Jordan (2), Ernst Pasqual." In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: ''Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon.'' Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, , pg.189Online
Biography
He was descended from a Spanish cavalry officer who served with the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars and changed his name from "Jorda" to Jordan. Upon retirement, his family settled in Hanover. At that time the House of Hanover ruled England. His initial training was as adecorative painter
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, at the local . He then worked as a theatre painter. In 1880, he began attending the in Berlin, followed by studies at the Prussian Academy of Art
The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and late ...
with Ernst Hildebrand.
In 1887, after spending a few years in Paris and Rome, he returned to Hanover and became a member of the . In 1895, he was appointed a lecturer for drawing and architectural painting at the Technischen Hochschule. Two years later, he took over management of the "Nude Room" at his alma mater, the School of Applied Arts, Hanover.* Hugo Thielen: "Jordan (2), Ernst Pasqual." In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Eds.), ''Stadtlexikon Hannover Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart'' Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, , pg.325. He was appointed a "Professor Extraordinarius" at the Technischen Hochschule in 1899. After that, he became a teacher at the School of Applied Arts in Straßburg.
He continued to have great influence on the Hanoverian art scene through the 1920s. After World War I, he was a staunch opponent of modernist art movements and continued to promote what he felt were traditional styles. Reproductions of his works remained popular.
References
Further reading
* Paul Trommsdorff: ''Der Lehrkörper der Technischen Hochschule Hannover 1831–1931.'' 1931, pg.108. * Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus: In : '' Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie'', Vol.5, pg.362 * Ines Katenhusen: "Kunst und Politik. Hannovers Auseinandersetzung mit der Moderne in der Weimarer Republik", dissertation, University of Hannover, in the aseries ''Hannoversche Studien'',Stadtarchiv Hannover
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, Hahn, 1998, , pgs.221–223
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Ernst 1858 births 1924 deaths German painters Decorative artists German art educators Artists from Hanover