Jeanne Hébuterne

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Jeanne Hébuterne (around 1914)

Jeanne Hébuterne (born April 6, 1898 in Meaux , † January 26, 1920 in Paris ) was a French painter and model .

Life

Jeanne Hébuterne was the youngest daughter of the accountant Achille Casimir Hébuterne and his wife Eudoxie Anaïs Tellier. As with her older brother, André Hébuterne (1894–1992), her parents discovered artistic talent at an early age. She shared a room with André in the Montparnasse district of Paris and studied art at the private Académie Colarossi . In order to earn some money for her studies, she modeled other artists, including Tsuguharu Foujita . The writer Charles-Albert Cingria described Hébuterne as gentle, shy, calm and with a certain something.

Modigliani: Jeanne Hébuterne (1918)

In 1917 the 19-year-old student met Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), who was 14 years her senior , and fell in love. He ended her two-year relationship with the English poet and art critic Beatrice Hastings for her . A short time later, both moved into a joint studio on Rue de la Grande Chaumière. One of Modigliani's pictures from 1917 is Jeanne Hebuterne au collier . To avoid the bombs of the Germans , Modigliani moved with the pregnant Hébuterne and her brother to Nice and Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1918 , where they stayed for over a year and met many friends and painted. On November 29, 1918, she gave birth to their daughter. Amedeo Modigliani recognized the paternity of the child who received the mother's first name. During their stay in Nice and the surrounding area, they frequently visited Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Pablo Picasso , Giorgio de Chirico and André Derain .

Jeanne Hébuterne: Self-Portrait (undated)

After her return to Paris in May 1919, Jeanne Hébuterne was pregnant again and Modigliani became engaged to her. The Hébuterne family was against the relationship, probably because Modigliani liked alcohol and hashish too much , and they no longer wanted to know anything about their daughter.

In a letter from 1919, Modigliani confirmed her as his future wife and officially recognized their daughter as his child. However, he was no longer able to implement his intention to marry because he fell seriously ill with tuberculosis towards the end of the year. On January 24, 1920 he died of tuberculous meningitis in the Charité in Paris. The day after next, Hébuterne, who was eight months pregnant, died when she jumped from the fifth floor of a house.

Modigliani was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery (Division 96). Hébuterne was later buried next to him after her family gave up their resistance. Her daughter Jeanne Modigliani, called Giovanna (1918-1984), was developed by Modigliani's sister Margherita in Florence adopted .

After her pictures were found in a cellar in 1992, Jeanne Hébuterne was first perceived as an independent artist.

literature

  • Jeanne Modigliani: Modigliani. Une biography. New edition, Éditions Biro, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-87660-104-4 .
  • Emily Braun, Kathleen Brunner, Simonetta Fraquelli: Modigliani and his models. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1811-7 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Royal Academy of Arts , July 8 to October 15, 2006).
  • Patrice Chaplin: Modigliani's last lover. ("Into the darkness laughing"). Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-499-13631-7 .

Movie

  • Love at work - Jeanne Hébuterne and Amedeo Modigliani. (OT: L'amour à l'œuvre - Jeanne Hébuterne et Amedeo Modigliani. ) Documentary, France 2018, 26:09 min., Script and direction: Stéphanie Colaux and Delphine Deloget, production: Bonne Compagnie, arte France, series: Liebe am Werk (OT: L'amour à l'œuvre. Couples mythiques d'artistes ), first broadcast: April 7, 2019 on arte, synopsis by ARD .

Web links

Commons : Jeanne Hébuterne  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film: Love at work - Jeanne Hébuterne and Amedeo Modigliani. In: ARD / arte , April 7, 2019.
  2. ↑ Laura Cumming: Modigliani and His Models. Royal Academy, London. In: The Guardian , July 9, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Hébuterne, Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French painter and model
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Meaux
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1920
Place of death Paris