Francis H. Aloysius Jahn
Born 1871
Died 1967
Active: 1896 - 1933
Sculptor, teacher of modelling
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He was the son of Ludwig Louis Hartmann Adalbert Jahn (c.1839-1911, born in Thuringia, Germany), china painter, designer and art director. His brother was Albert Carl Christian (c.1865-c.1935), art school headmaster. Francis started out as a potter's modeller in Stoke but was awarded a National Scholarship to the National Art Training Schools (Royal College of Art) in 1891. He then went on to become a teacher of modelling. In 1906 his brother, Albert appointed him as Head of Modelling at Sheffield School of Art, a position he held for some years.
The information about Jahn's studies is taken from 'A List of National Scholars (Art) from February 1885 to July 1891', 1892 [C.6721] Thirty-ninth report of the Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education, with appendices, Appendix B, p. 325.
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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Madonna
1904 (Presumed)
The Chorister
1906 (Presumed)
The Treasure
1907 (Presumed)
Sidonia
1910 (Presumed)
The Chorister
21 June 1910 - 1910 (Presumed)
Medusa
1910 (Presumed)
Diana
1914 (Presumed)
The Vale of Illusion
1914 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 22 Grange Crescent Sharrow Sheffield | View on map
Address 13 Church Street Hanley | View on map
1904 (Presumed)
Address 1 Sharrow Mount Psalter Lane Sheffield | View on map
1908 (Circa) - 1910 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Seventy-Eighth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1904
'Madonna'
Exhibited at The Eightieth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1906-1907
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Eighty-First Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1907-1908
Multiple works
Exhibited at North Staffordshire Arts Society. Fourteenth Exhibition of Pictures &c., &c., 1910
Multiple works
Exhibited at North Staffordshire Arts Society Annual Exhibition, 1914
Multiple works
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1909
'The Treasure'
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1920
'Diliana'
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1922
Multiple works
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1925
Multiple works
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1925
'Truth and Falsehood'
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1927
Multiple works
Exhibited at Laing Art Gallery and Museum, Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1933
Multiple works
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1902
1902
The Chorister (cat. no. 1498, plaster bust, not for sale).
Exhibited at Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings of the British School 1878-1903, and Sculpture (Nottingham Castle Museum), 1903
September 1903
Jahn exhibited one sculpture (undated).
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Minton and Company
Modelled a series of vases and ornamental ware for Minton; no dates are given. See Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 275.
Studied at Hanley School of Art
See Atterbury and Batkin 'Dictionary of Minton' (1990), p. 275, no dates are given.
Teacher of modeling at Hanley School of Art
1890 (Circa) - 1906 (Circa)
Based on Haggar (1953), pp. 24, 32 and prospectuses of Sheffield School of Art
Teacher of modeling at Middleport School of Art
September 1896 - 1896 (Presumed)
Teacher of clay modelling.
Teacher of modeling at Granville School of Art
September 1896 (Presumed)
Teacher of clay modelling.
Teacher of modeling at Sheffield School of Art
1906 - 1925 (Circa)
Personal and Professional Connections
Brother/sibling of Albert Carl Christian Jahn
Daughter/son/child of Ludwig Louis Hartmann Adalbert Jahn
Sources
'North Staffordshire Art Society Annual Exhibition', Staffordshire Sentinel, 12 March, 1914
12 March 1914
unpaged.
A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 24 and p. 32.
Autumn exhibition of pictures & sculpture: the thirty-second, 1902 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1902
pp. 42-47.
Burslem School Board. Minutes of Art Class Committee, 21 August 1896, 1896
21 August 1896
p. 1.
Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1933
1933
Cat. No. 329, p. 14
Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, July 1920
July 1920
Cat. No. 497, pp. 31, 39
Catalogue of the Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1925
1925
Cat. No. 405, pp. 23, 27
Catalogue of the Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, November 1922
November 1922
Cat. No. 454, pp. 22, 29
Catalogue of the Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1925
1925
Cat. No. 469, p. 23
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1909
1909
Cat. Nos. 234, 393, pp. 24, 35, 78
Catalogue of the Twentieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of the Northern Counties, 1927
1927
Cat. Nos. 445, 456, pp. 17, 23
North Staffordshire Arts Society. Catalogue of the Fourteenth Exhibition of Pictures, 1910
21 June 1910 (Presumed)
p. 20.
Sheffield Technical School of Art Prospectus 1906-7
1906
p.4
The Dictionary of Minton
1990
p. 275.
Citing this record
'Francis H. Aloysius Jahn', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1203418350, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
