Jean Benner

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Jean Benner (born March 28, 1836 in Mulhouse in Alsace , † October 28, 1906 in Paris ) was a French painter and twin brother of the painter Emmanuel Benner .

Portrait photo of the painter Jean Benner, taken by Braun, Clément & Cie ( Adolphe Braun ) in Paris, between 1889 and 1910
Emmanuel and Jean Benner, 1883

Father of Jean and his twin brother Emmanuel Benner (1836-1896) was the painter and textile designer Jean Benner-Fries.

The twin brothers Benner were initially designers for various Mülhausen companies. At the age of 30, Jean Benner studied art in Paris; together with Léon Bonnat (1833–1922) and Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905), and probably also with his brother Emmanuel. He exhibited his paintings in the Paris Salon of 1868. Benner portrayed Henner in 1899; Henner had previously portrayed Benner in 1863.

Jean Benner mainly painted still lifes, portraits, genre paintings and female nudes. He lived and painted for a time on the Italian island of Capri, which at that time, in the last third of the 19th century, was a European artist colony.

Works (selection)

  • Flowers and Fruits (1868)
  • After a storm on Capri (1872)
  • Trappist monk at prayer (1875)
  • Briseis sobbing over Patroclus' corpse (1878), Château-Musée, Nemours
  • La Nymphe de la Grotte d'Azur (1878)
  • A house on Capri (1881), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau
  • L'Extase (Rapture, ca.1896), Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg
  • Portrait of Jean-Jacques Henner (1899), Mulhouse Museum of Fine Arts
  • Jeune fille de Capri (Young Woman on Capri, 1906), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
  • Un coin d'ombre à Capri (A shady corner on Capri; date unknown)
  • Mallow (date unknown), Musée d'art et d'archéologie, Senlis
  • Les Pêcheurs (The Fishermen), Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre
  • Portrait of Emmanuel Benner, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
  • Salomé, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
  • À la France, toujours (around 1906), Museum of Fine Arts in Mulhouse

gallery

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean-Jacques Henner. In: Plateforme Ouverte du Patrimoine. Ministère de la Culture, accessed March 28, 2020 (French, portrait).
personal data
SURNAME Benner, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse , France
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1906
Place of death Paris , France