Edmond Aman-Jean

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Edmond François Aman-Jean (born November 13, 1858 in Chevry-Cossigny , Département Seine-et-Marne , † January 25, 1936 in Paris ) was a French painter of the fin de siècle and founder of the Salon des Tuileries .

Life

Aman-Jean studied at the Paris Art School with Henri Lehmann and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes . He was also influenced by Japanese art, Ukiyo-e and the English Pre-Raphaelites . His students were u. a. the American Charles Hopkinson and the Romanians Theodor Pallady as well as Nicolae Tonitza and Julie Wolfthorn .

He was friends with Georges Seurat , with whom he had shared a studio in Paris since 1879, and the symbolists Paul Verlaine , Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle Adam and Stéphane Mallarmé . From 1883 to 1884 he was an employee of Puvis de Chavannes', in 1885 he stayed on a travel grant in Rome, Naples and Arezzo . In 1887 he traveled to Brussels with Georges Seurat to visit Vincent van Gogh .

Aman-Jean initially painted historical and allegorical subjects, including Jeanne d'Arc and Sirenerna , but gained a name mainly through his decorative fantasy paintings ( Venezia and others). In addition, he designed posters and created graphics. At the end of the 1880s he achieved his artistic breakthrough with his portraits of ladies of Paris society. For his portraits of women with slightly sentimental and melancholy darkened attributes, he received the gold medal of the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 and 1900. From 1897 he was a corresponding member of the Vienna Secession . After several stays in Italy, he fell into a creative crisis under the impact of the First World War . In the early 1920s he resumed his artistic activity. Together with Auguste Rodin and Albert Besnard , he founded the “ Salon des Tuileries ” in 1923 , which was to develop into one of the most important annual French exhibitions. In 1933 he was appointed Commander of the Légion d'Honneur for his life's work .

His paintings hang today u. a. in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris , in the Louvre and in the art museums of Nantes, Strasbourg, Douai, Lyon, Rouen, Dijon, in Aachen, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro.

literature

  • Edmond Aman-Jean . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-Armati . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 758 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  • Francois Jean-Aman: Souvenir d'Aman-Jean: 1859-1936 . Paris 1970.
  • Francoise Baligand (ed.): Aman-Jean: Songes des femmes . Catalog for the exhibition in Douai, Carcassonne and Bourg-en-Bresse. Lectoure 2003.
  • Patrick-Gilles Persin: Aman-Jean . La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris 1993, ISBN 978-2-907475-04-4 .

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SURNAME Aman-Jean, Edmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aman-Jean, Edmond François (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Chevry-Cossigny
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1936
Place of death Paris