Jean Jovenau
Jean Jovenau , called Jean-Jovenau or Jean-Joveneau , (born September 17, 1888 in Paris , † in the 20th century) was a French painter. He mainly created landscapes, still lifes and portraits .
Life
Jean Jovenau was trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and then at the Académie Julian , his teacher was Tony Robert-Fleury . At the beginning of his career he had a studio on Boulevard Henri IV; there, in addition to still life with flowers, he created views of the Île Saint-Louis . Inspired by Henri Matisse , he then concentrated on large still lifes, which, like the interior paintings that he created from around 1914, became less overloaded over time than at the beginning of his work.
Works
A picture by Jovenau was exhibited in the Salon in 1903, and in 1912 he showed a Paris street view with Place Delta in the Cologne Sonderbund exhibition . In 1913 he took part in the first international exhibition of the Secession in Rome with a still life entitled Le pot de Gaillardes and in 1919 he was represented in the 27th special exhibition of the Kestner Society in Hanover . In 1922, on the occasion of a collective exhibition in the Bernheim-Jeune gallery , there was a break with the Parisian art dealer Bernheim, who had secured the sole right to sell Jovenau's paintings in 1908.
Robert de Rothschild bought several of Jovenau's paintings, including a still life of a rabbit and mushrooms on a Louis XVI style chest of drawers. shows. The French state secured a still life with a rabbit and a statue of Cupid. Félix Fénéon bought two nudes and several landscapes from Jovenaus. A still life with a mirror from 1912 is in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg , on whose homepage it is mentioned, without giving reasons or sources, that the artist died before 1926.
Exhibitions
- 1914: Vue de Honfleur at the Cologne Werkbund exhibition
- 1998/99: Face à face. Portrait d'artistes dans les collections publiques d'Île-de-France. Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Mantes-la-Jolie; Musée d'art et d'histoire, Saint-Denis; Bossuet Museum, Meaux
literature
Chartes du chapitre de Sainte-Waudru de Mons; . Bruxelles, Kiessling et cie, P. Imbreghts, successeur, 1899. Text archive - Internet Archive
- Jovenau, Jean . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 19 : Ingouville – Kauffungen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1926.
- Jovenau, Jean called Jean-Jovenau . In: Emmanuel Bénézit (Ed.): Benezit dictionary of artists . Oxford University Press, New York, doi : 10.1093 / benz / 9780199773787.article.B00096139 (beginning of article).
Individual evidence
- ↑ hermitagemuseum.org
- ↑ La Werkbundauststellung de Cologne. In: Paris Journal. Guillaume Apollinaire, Université Paris-Sorbonne, July 27, 1914, accessed October 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jovenau, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jean-Joveneau; Jean-Jovenau |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |