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Jank, Angelo
(b Munich, 30 Oct 1868; d Munich, 9 Oct 1940). German painter, illustrator, teacher and poster designer. The son of the painter Christian Jank (1833–88), he attended Simon Hollósy’s private art school in Munich before studying (1891–6) at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, also in Munich, under Ludwig von Löfftz (1845–1910) and Paul Höcker (1854–1910). From 1896 he exhibited at the Munich Secession, and he became a member of DIE SCHOLLE, founded in 1899. A regular contributor to the journal Jugend and at the forefront of modernism, he made his mark as a humorous illustrator, portraying allegories and scenes from military life. Jank also designed posters (e.g. Underworld, 1896; Berlin, Mus. Dt. Gesch.). He taught at the Damenakademie (1899–1907). Having come to prominence as a portrayer of events from German history with three monumental paintings for Berlin’s Reichstag building (destr.) in 1905, he collaborated with Adolf Münzer (1870–1952) and Walter Püttner (1872–1953) on frescoes (1906) in the Schwurgerichtssaal of the Neuer Justizpalast in Munich. Between 1907 and 1937 he was a professor at the Munich Akademie. In such works as Soldiers Bearing the Coffin of Fritz von Uhde (1911; Munich, Neue Pin.) Jank created an intense atmosphere. He used an impressionist style with flat brushstrokes in depictions of hunts and horse races to capture the powerful movements of horse and rider, for example Jockey Racing Over Hurdles (1909; Wuppertal, von der Heydt-Mus.).
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