JORDAN, yor'dzin, RUDOLF ( A German genre painter, born in Berlin, where he became a pupil of Wadi. He then studied from nature in the island of Rtigen, and having won success with his first picture, "Interior of Pilot's Home" (1831, now owned by the German Em peror), went to Diisseldorf in 1833 to continue his studies at the Academy under Schadow and Karl Sohn, and made his mark with "An Offer of Marriage in Heligoland" National Gal lery, Berlin). Frequent journeys to the coasts of Holland, Belgium, and France furnished him with the subjects for the clever delineations from the life of fishermen and sailors, to which there after he devoted his brush almost exclusively, depicting it with poetic conception and equal skill c n its humorous and serious sides. Out of the great number of these characteristic scenes, sev eral of which became widely known through re productions, may be mentioned: "Return of the Pilots" ( IS36) ; "Boat-Hawsing in Normandy" (1843) ; "The Pilot's Death" (1856) ; "Old Men's Home on the Coast of Holland" (1864) ; and `The Widow's Comfort" (1866), all in the Na tional Gallery. Berlin; "Shipwreck on the Coast
of Normandy" (1S4S, Dresden Gallery), "Soup for the Sick," and "The First Child" (1862), Dile seldorf Gallery: "First Visit After the Wedding" (1861), and "Soup-Day at a French Convent" (186S), Leipzig Museum. His pictures of popu lar life in Italy, which he visited in 1877-78, are less satisfactory. lie did excellent work in water colors and was also favorably known as an illus trator and etcher. He was professor at the This seldorf Academy, and received the great gold medal at the Berlin Exhibition in ISS6.