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GÉNISSON, VICTOR JULES born at St. Omer (Pas-de-Calais) in 1805, died in 1860. Architecture painter. Works: View in Dominican Monastery at Antwerp (1843); Church Interior (1845), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Burial Chapel at Dreux 1850); Interior of Collegiate Church at St. Lierre near Antwerp (1852), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; St. Lawrence's at Nuremberg, Stettin Museum.
GENNERICH, OTTO, born in Berlin in
1823. History painter, pupil of Berlin
Academy. Continued his studies in Italy
(1841-42) with Lengerich. After his return
he taught and wrote on perspective. Works:
Götz von Berlichingen at Heilbronn (1848);
Last Will of Great Elector (1852); Visit of
Electoral Family of Brandenburg to Remains
of Gustavus Adolphus at Wolgast
(1869).—Müller, 200.
GENOD, MICHEL PHILIBERT, born
in Lyons, Sept. 20, 1796, died there, July
25, 1862. Genre painter, pupil of Révoil,
and one of the best painters born at Lyons.
His pictures are agreeable, true to nature,
and carefully executed. Medal, 2d class,
1819; L. of Honour, 1855. Many of his
works have been engraved. Works: Mother
with a Sick Child (1819); Father's Blessing,
Hospital Sister (1822); Soldier's Farewell
(1824), Lyons Museum; Young Mother
mourning for her Son (1824); Cupid and
Psyche; Prisoners of State under Louis XIII.
(1835); Monk in the Pyrenees; The Golden
Wedding (1855); The Prisoner (1857); The
King Drinks! A Painter's Apprentice (1861).—Larousse.
GENOELS, ABRAHAM, called Archimedes,
born in Antwerp, May 25, 1640,
died there, May 10, 1723. Flemish school;
landscape painter, pupil of Jacob Backerell,
and at Bois-le-Duc of Fierlants; went to
France in 1659, where he was employed by
Lebrun to paint the backgrounds in his Battles
of Alexander the Great, and in 1664 was
made member of the Academy. In 1672
he entered the guild of Antwerp, whither he
returned after having spent the period from
1674 to 1682 in Rome, where his knowledge
of mathematics acquired him the surname
of Archimedes.
Works:
Minerva and the
Muses, Antwerp
Museum; Landscape,
Brunswick
Museum.—Allgem.
d.
Biogr., viii. 569;
Ch. Blanc, École
flamande; Cat.
du Musée d'Anvers (1874), Fétis, Les Artistes
belges à l'étranger, i. 215;
Rooses (Reber), 414; Riegel,
Beiträge, 130; Van den Branden,
1074.
GENSCHOW, GEORG, born at Rostock in 1829. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Andreas Achenbach, and afterwards studied nature in the Bavarian Highlands, Switzerland, and the Carpathian Mountains; Lives at Düsseldorf. Works: Mountain Lake (1853), View in the Hartz, Mill in the Mountains (1859), Sea-*shore at Sunset (1861), Schwerin Gallery; Waterfall in Carpathian Mountains (1862), Kiel Gallery; Wood Brook (1864), Fall in Tatra Mountains (1866), Evening Landscape (1867), Mill on River Erft (1868).—Müller, 200.
GENSLER, GÜNTHER, born in Hamburg,
Feb. 28, 1803. Portrait painter and
writer on art, studied in Dresden, the Netherlands,
and Italy. Works: Two Groups of
Artists (1849 and 1860), Old Art Amateur
(1867), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Assembly of
Hamburg Artists (1859), Cologne Museum;
Hour of Rest in the Studio (1854), Leipsic
Museum.—Müller, 200.
GENSLER, JAKOB, born in Hamburg,
Jan. 22, 1808, died there, Jan. 26, 1845.
Genre painter, pupil of Rachau and Gerdt
Hardorff, the elder, then in Eutin of Wilhelm
Tischbein; went in 1827 to Dresden, and
thence to Munich, where he frequented the
Academy. Visited the Tyrol, then continued