Barthélemy Menn

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Barthélemy Menn, self-portrait with a straw hat, 1872

Barthélemy Menn (born May 20, 1815 in Geneva ; † October 11, 1893 there ) was a Swiss landscape painter .

Life

The young man began his art studies in Geneva with Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer and Leonard Lugardon, before he went to Paris in 1833 to study with Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres . In 1835 he followed this to Rome . In 1838 he returned to Paris, where he was attracted by the landscape painters Charles-François Daubigny , Théodore Rousseau and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot . He also socialized with George Sand (he taught their son Maurice Dudevant), Chopin and Eugène Delacroix . In 1843 he finally settled in Geneva.

Barthélemy Menn is best known for his poetic, idyllic landscapes. With Alexandre Calame he was the main representative of the Geneva School of the first half of the 19th century. He was in contact with Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (with whom he decorated the great salon of the castle of Gruyère in 1859-1857) Gustave Courbet and Jacques Alfred van Muyden .

For many years he was a professor at the Geneva Art School ( École des Beaux-Arts ). His most famous student (from 1872 to 1878) was Ferdinand Hodler . He also taught Albert Bartholomé , Auguste Baud-Bovy , Eugène Burnand , Édouard Castres , Albert Gos , John Graff, Edouard Jeanmaire, François Furet, Simon Durand and Alfred Rehfous.

literature

  • Jura Brüschweiler: Barthélemy Menn 1815-1893. Étude critique et biographique. Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1960.
  • Georges Vigne: Les élèves d'Ingres. Exhibition catalog Montauban, Musée Ingres. Besançon 2000, pp. 20-21.
  • Marc Fehlmann : Menn Copiste I. Barthélemy Menn et l'Antiquité. In: Genava. Revue d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie , Vol. 56, 2008, pp. 25-41.
  • Marc Fehlmann: Menn Copiste II. Barthélemy Menn et ses contemporains. In: Genava. Revue d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie , Vol. 57, 2009, pp. 61–91.
  • Matthias Fischer: The young Hodler. An artistic career 1872–1897. Nimbus, Wädenswil 2009, ISBN 978-3-907142-30-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alberto de Andrés: Barthélemy Menn in: In the light of French-speaking Switzerland. Oskar Reinhart as a collector of art from western Switzerland . Ed .: Hatje Cantz, Swiss Institute for Art Research, Winterthur 2001, p. 181

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personal data
SURNAME Menn, Barthélemy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menn, Barthélémy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1893
Place of death Geneva