August Neven Du Mont

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Self-portrait by August Neven Du Mont (1900)

August Ludwig Matthäus Neven Du Mont (born September 2, 1866 in Cologne , † June 27, 1909 in Bexhill-on-Sea ) was a German portrait and landscape painter who mainly worked in England.

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August Neven Du Mont was one of the ten children of August Neven DuMont and Christine DuMont (1836–1903), daughter of the publisher Joseph DuMont . After attending the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in his native Cologne , he worked briefly for the Kölnische Zeitung , but then turned to painting instead. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1887 to 1894 . There he was a student of Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola , Adolf Schill and especially of Peter Janssen the Elder. Ä. whose classes he attended from 1890. In 1891 he married Maria Guilleaume, daughter of the entrepreneur Franz Carl Guilleaume . He was interested in outdoor painting and went on long trips that took him to Spain and Morocco , among other places . After a visit to England in 1895, he decided to move there permanently.

In April 1896 August Neven Du Mont moved to London, later he lived in the medieval manor Manor House in Bexhill-on-Sea. He became a close friend of the Irish portrait and landscape painter John Lavery . Du Mont exhibited his paintings both in his new homeland and in Germany, where he returned regularly. He took part in exhibitions at the International Society and the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) , among others . At the RA exhibition in 1897 he showed his picture Marjorie . In 1902, at the 5th exhibition of the Berlin Secession, he presented a self-portrait in a black riding skirt , about which Hans Rosenhagen judged that it looked “incomparably more independent” than his earlier pictures.

In addition to painting, August Neven Du Mont often pursued polo and fox hunting in England , the latter an experience that he addressed several times in his pictures. He hunted first with Lord Portman's Hunt, then with the New Forest Foxhound, and was named East Sussex's Master of Foxhounds (MFH) . In 1909 he did not take part in the East Sussex Foxhound Championship due to a serious illness and died shortly afterwards at the age of 42 in the Manor House in Bexhill. He left his wife and three sons. His eldest son was the writer and journalist Mark Neven DuMont (1892–1972).

The painter Fritz Westendorp (1867–1926), who was a friend of August Neven Du Mont, organized an estate exhibition in the deceased's London studio. Memorial exhibitions were held in Cologne and Düsseldorf in the winter of 1910/11. In 1958, the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne showed another memorial exhibition .

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August Neven Du Mont mainly painted portraits and figures as well as landscapes. He mainly portrayed female models, several times his wife and sons. He also created a series of paintings depicting Pierrot in various situations. In the last ten years of his life he created around 50 mostly small-format works that show English landscapes, in particular with fox hunts and other groups of riders.

Works (selection)
Cromwell Road , oil painting around 1906
  • Domkapitular Schnütgen and two ladies Neven-DuMont having coffee. 1892, pencil drawing, Museum Schnütgen
  • Marjorie shown at the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition in 1897
  • Self-portrait in a black riding skirt , 1900, panel , shown at the 5th exhibition of the Berlin Secession in 1902
  • Eighteen forty , portrait of a woman in a green crinoline, 1903
  • Picture with pack of hares, 1903
  • John Jorrocks MFH 1905, panel, 140 × 166 cm, from 1906 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud , from 1976 Museum Ludwig
  • Cromwell Road: The New Building of the Victoria and Albert Museum under Construction. around 1906, oil on panel, 16 × 11.75, Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Portrait of his wife Maria Neven Du Mont on a bench with a cat, 1907
  • Portrait of Maria Neven Du Mont / Lady on a divan , 1908, panel, oil on linden wood 40.5 × 30 cm, initially private collection Mark Neven DuMont, from 1959 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, from 1976 Museum Ludwig
  • Cap Martin (Côte d´Azur) , 1908, oil on panel, 30 × 41 cm
  • Portrait of a son, sitting on a chair, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • Portrait of the daughter of General Ellison, exhibited at the Brussels World's Fair 1910
  • In front of the studio window , 1908, panel painting, Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • Evening party , 1915
  • Portrait of the painter Fritz Westendorp
  • The dead Pierrot
  • Between the dogs and the deep sea
  • After the rain
  • The field
  • Fox hunting

literature

Web links

Commons : August Neven Du Mont  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius:  Neven DuMont, August Libert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 190 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
  3. ^ Neven Du Mont, August Ludwig. In: AL Degener (Ed.): Who is it? Our contemporaries. 4th edition, 1909.
  4. ^ Paul Clemen : August Neven Du Mont. In: The art for all. P. 266.
  5. ↑ You Mont, August Neven. In: Brian Stewart, Mervyn Cutten: The dictionary of portrait painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1997, ISBN 1-85149-173-2 , p. 178.
  6. ^ Du Mont, August N. In: Algernon Graves: The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Volume 1, Kingsmead Reprints, Bath 1970, ISBN 0-85409-585- 3 , p. 385.
  7. ^ A b Hans Rosenhagen : The fifth exhibition of the Berlin Secession. In: Art for everyone. 17.1902, pp. 434, 442 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  8. ↑ Mr. Neven Du Mont. In: The Times June 29, 1909, p. 13.
  9. ^ Neven DuMont, Mark . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 7 : Menghin – Pötel . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094026-8 , pp. 441 ( books.google.de - limited preview).
  10. ^ Paul Clemen: August Neven Du Mont. In: The art for all. P. 268.
  11. ^ Paul Clemen: August Neven Du Mont. In: The art for all. P. 272.
  12. ↑ John Jorrock's MFH kulturelles-erbe-koeln.de. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
  13. ^ Cromwell Road: The New Building of the Victoria and Albert Museum under Construction ( collections.vam.ac.uk ). Retrieved May 2, 2015.
  14. ↑ Portrait of Maria Neven Du Mont / Lady on Divan Kulturelles-erbe-koeln.de. Retrieved May 2, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Neven Du Mont, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neven Du Mont, August Ludwig Matthäus (full name); Neven DuMont, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1909
Place of death Bexhill-on-Sea