SwissArtGallery · Documented identity
The German landscape painter Joseph Jansen, also known as Johann Joseph Jansen, was born in Aachen in 1829 and died in Düsseldorf in 1905. He settled in Düsseldorf at the age of seventeen, studied at the Prussian Royal Academy of Fine Arts and attended Johann Wilhelm Schirmer’s landscape class from 1847 to 1850. His study trips first took him to the regions of the Rhine and Moselle, then to the Swiss and Bavarian Alps. He exhibited at various German galleries from 1850, took part in exhibitions at the Berlin Academy from 1870 and exhibited in Vienna in 1872.
The titles of his paintings evoke these regions and their sites: Schloss Oberhofen am Thunersee, dated around 1860, Gebirgssee (1870) and Motiv aus Meiringen (1872) are followed, among the works cited, by Motiv aus dem Chamonix-Tal (1890), Wasserfall in alpiner Landschaft (1898) and Blick auf den Vierwaldstättersee (1900). In 1880, Emperor William I acquired his painting Oeschinensee im Berner Oberland. A member of the artists’ association Malkasten, Jansen married the landscape painter Luise Siebke (1835–1912), who had first been his pupil.
This profile brings together identity references for Joseph Jansen and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
3 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky, Lempertz. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
Oil on canvas
Seelandschaft mit Boot und Bergen.
Öl auf Leinwand
Catalogue period : 2021-05-08
Published result : 600 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 700
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Oil on canvas
Gebirgslandschaft mit Mühle an einem Bach
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2018-03-14
Published result : 2728 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 2000
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Oil on canvas
Am Wildbach
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2016-09-21
Published result : 3348 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 2500
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
