Ernst Jordan

Ernst Pasqual Jordan (22 January 1858 in Hanover – 8 September 1924 in Barsinghausen) was a German painter and art professor. He was the father of Pascual Jordan, one of the co-founders of quantum mechanics.

Biography He was descended from a Spanish cavalry officer who served with the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars and changed his name from "Jorda" to Jordan. Upon retirement, his family settled in Hanover. At that time the House of Hanover ruled England.

His initial training was as a decorative painter, at the local . He then worked as a theatre painter. In 1880, he began attending the in Berlin, followed by studies at the Prussian Academy of Art with Ernst Hildebrand. He was appointed a "Professor Extraordinarius" at the Technischen Hochschule in 1899. After that, he became a teacher at the School of Applied Arts in Straßburg.

He continued to have great influence on the Hanoverian art scene through the 1920s. After World War I, he was a staunch opponent of modernist art movements and continued to promote what he felt were traditional styles. Reproductions of his works remained popular.