Jean-Jacques Henner

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Jean Jacques Henner
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Portrait of the painter Jean-Jacques Henner by Jean Benner

Jean-Jacques Henner (born March 5, 1829 in Bernweiler , Alsace , † July 23, 1905 in Paris ) was a French painter of academic realism .

Life

Henner, who came from a farming family in Sundgau , initially received drawing lessons from Charles Goutzwiller (1810–1900) in Altkirch . He later moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg to study painting in Gabriel-Christophe Guérin's (1790–1846) studio . In 1846 he moved to Paris and was first a student of Michel-Martin Drolling at the École des Beaux-Arts there and, from 1851, of François-Édouard Picot . During this time, he mainly worked on portraits, which included his family and other people from his home in Alsace.

With the support of his teachers, Henner took part in an exhibition at the Académie Française in 1858 . With his work Adam and Eve Finding the Body of Abel , he won the Prix ​​de Rome , which included a study visit to the Villa Medici in Rome. Henner stayed in Italy until 1865 and devoted himself primarily to studying the works of Titian and Correggio . During this time he specialized in the representation of naked women in a landscape, the outlines of which are painted blurred in the semi-darkness or twilight.

After his return to Paris, Henner devoted himself to portrait painting in addition to these mostly mythological female figures. His lifelike painting style made these portraits very popular with the fin de siècle audience . Today, many of his works can be seen in the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris .

Works (selection)

  • Chaste Susanna or Susanna in the Bath (1864), Musée d'Orsay
  • Biblis transformed into a spring (1867), Musée des Beaux-Arts Dijon
  • The Woman on the Black Divan (1869), Musée Jean-Jacques Henner
  • The Idyll (1872), Musée d'Orsay
  • The Good Samaritan (1874), Musée Jean-Jacques Henner
  • The Dead Christ (1876), Musée Jean-Jacques Henner
  • The Naiad (1877), Musée d'Orsay
  • Christ in the Tomb (1879), Musée d'Orsay
  • Nymph bending over the water (1881), Musée Jean-Jacques Henner
  • The Reading Woman (1883), Musée d'Orsay

gallery

  • Alsatian girls

  • Christ in the grave

  • The woman in red

  • Chaste Susanna

  • Solitude

  • Portrait of Jules Janssen

  • Young girl with a bow in her hair

  • The reader

  • Sleeping youth after the bath

literature

  • Étienne Bricon: Psychologie d'art. Les maîtres de la fin du siècle . Editions May, Paris 1900.
  • Charles Degree: Jean-Jacques Henner. Biography . Berger-Levrault, Nancy 1887.
  • Isabelle de Lannoy: Musée National Jean-Jacques Henner. Catalog des peintures . Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7118-4676-8 .
  • Pauline Pierson (Ed.): JJ Henner, la jeunesse d'un peintre. De 1847 à 1864, du Sundgau à la Villa Medici . Edition du Rhin, Steinbrunn-le-Haut 1989, ISBN 2-86339-059-7 (catalog of the exhibition Musée des Beaux-Arts, Mulhouse 1989/90).
  • Albert Soubies: J.-J. Henner. Notes biographiques . Flammarion, Paris 1925

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Henner, Jean-Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henner, Jean Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernweiler , Alsace
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1905
Place of death Paris