Abraham Hermanjat

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Self-portrait (1921)
My orchard (1905)

Abraham Hermanjat ( Jacques-Elie-Abraham Hermanjat ; born September 29, 1862 in Geneva , † October 12, 1932 in Aubonne VD ) was a Swiss oriental and landscape painter , influenced by Fauvism and Pointillism .

biography

Abraham Hermanjat was the son of the railway worker Jean Marc Samuel Hermanjat and the milliner Julie Françoise Louise b. Forestier. His father died in 1874 and his mother emigrated to Algiers with his older brother, a pharmacist .

From 1881 to 1886 he received his training at the municipal art schools of the city of Geneva with Barthélemy Menn and Auguste Baud-Bovy . In 1886 he married Marie Louise Zénobel. In the same year he went to Algiers to join his brother and mother. During his visits to North Africa from October 1886 to 1888, from October 1889 to 1890 and from 1893 to 1896, he painted desert landscapes and genre scenes of Maghrebian folklore.

In 1896, Hermanjat and his wife returned to Switzerland. After brief stays in Lausanne , Pully and Lignières-sur-Chexbres , he settled in Aubonne in 1908 . Since then he has devoted himself to alpine landscape painting and also created still lifes . In 1910 he visited Corsica .

From 1908 to 1912 he painted in the style of Fauvism, in the later years he was influenced by pointillism.

Abraham Hermanjat was a member of the central board of the Society of Swiss Painters and Sculptors from 1910 and was elected President of the Vaudois Section in 1911. From 1922 to 1925 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission . From 1922 he taught at the cantonal drawing school in Lausanne.

literature

  • Hermanjat, Abraham . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 509 .
  • Paul Budry: Abraham Hermanjat. Tableaux choisis précédés d'un essai sur le peintre et son œuvre. Éditions Romanes, Lausanne 1932.
  • "Greetings from afar". 19th century Swiss oriental painting. Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Solothurn. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2001.
  • Laurent Langer: Hermanjat, Abraham . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 72, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023177-9 , p. 191.
  • Abraham Hermanjat. De l'Orient au Léman [… à l'occasion de l'exposition… Musée historique et des porcelaines, château de Nyon, Musée du Léman, Nyon, 11 May - 9 September 2012]. Benteli, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7165-1721-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hermanjat, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermanjat, Jacques-Elie-Abraham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1932
Place of death Aubonne VD