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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