Jens Adolf Jerichau

Jens Adolf Jerichau ( born April 7, 1816 in Assen, † July 25, 1883 ) was a Danish sculptor.

Jens Adolf Jerichau received his artistic training only on the Academy in Copenhagen and was in Rome since 1838. There he was strongly influenced by Bertel Thorvaldsen.

Jerichau established his reputation through a relief to a frieze in the royal castle at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, representing the marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxane.

His colossal group of Hercules and lifting and a carved marble Penelope are held in strict antique spirit. In addition, he created a group, which represents one of a panther incurred hunters and girls taking a bath.

As a result of suspended by the Princess of Prussia price he delivered an executed in marble representation of the resurrection of Christ. He died on 25 July 1883. His grave in Copenhagen is decorated with a bronze copy of the Angel of Peace, which he had made ​​for the grave of Charlotte Friederike of Mecklenburg -Schwerin on the Roman Campo Santo Teutonico.

His wife, Elisabeth Jerichau -Baumann was a painter and son Harald was a painter.