Jenny Montigny

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Jenny Montigny, portrait by Emile Claus (1902)

Jeanne "Jenny" Montigny (born December 8, 1875 in Gent , Belgium , † October 31, 1937 in Sint-Martens-Latem , Belgium) was a Belgian painter.

Career

Jeanne "Jenny" Montigny, daughter of Joanna Helena Mair and Louis Karel August "Jules" Montigny, was born in Flanders during the reign of King Leopold II . Her father was a lawyer and a government official. He headed several bodies and commissions and was later dean of the law faculty at Ghent University . Her mother was British . Jenny had a brother and two sisters. Nothing is known about her youth. At the age of 17 she decided to become an artist, knowing that she could not count on her parents. Your father once said the following:

"De kunsten laten me helemaal koud."

"The art leaves me completely cold."

After seeing a painting by Emile Claus , The Kingfishers, she decided to get a job in his studio at Deinze . In the summer of 1893, she and several other students began their outdoor painting course . After 1895 she commuted between Ghent and Deinze. Despite the fact that Claus was married and 26 years older than her, she became his lover - a relationship that she continued until his death in 1924. She made her debut as an artist in 1902 at the Ghent Salon , followed by exhibitions in Paris ( France ). In 1904 she and her younger brother moved into a villa in Deurle , a rural part of the parish of Sint-Martens-Latem. Later she joined the luministic society Vie et Lumière .

When the First World War broke out , she followed Claus and his wife to London ( Great Britain ), where she became a member of the Women's International Art Club and exhibited her works in the Grafton Galleries . After the end of the war she returned to Belgium. She had to sell her villa and move into a more modest house. In 1923 she joined the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA). After the death of Claus she found herself in financial difficulties. Her painting style was no longer popular and she was dependent on donations from family and friends. It was largely forgotten after her death. It was not until 1987 that exhibitions of her works took place in Deurle and Dienze. This was followed by a major retrospective at the Musée Camille Pissarro in Pontoise ( France ).

Works (selection)

Kleuterschool te Deurle
  • Interior , 1906
  • L'intérieur ensoleillé , 1906
  • Return à la Ferme , 1906
  • Table fleurie , 1906
  • Zonnig inside , 1906
  • Filette dans un paysage - Meisje in een landschap , 1910
  • Filette avec chèvre à deurle , 1911
  • S zomers op het erf , 1911
  • Allée des cavaliers , 1915
  • Emile Claus aan het Werk , 1924
  • La cour de récréation , 1925
  • Kindje in een kinderstoel , 1926
  • L'enfant dans sa chaise haute , 1926
  • Jeunes filles au bord de la Lys , 1929
  • Meisjeshoofd , 1929
  • Hoeve bij Avond , 1933
  • Bergère sous l'arbre
  • Bouquet de fleurs
  • Buste de femme (esquisse)
  • Champs de fleurs, Deurle
  • Compositie with porselein
  • Composition aux porcelaines
  • Dimanche au parc à Londres
  • De leie
  • Deurle
  • Einde van de schooltijd
  • Enfant dans la cour
  • Fermière et son troupeau de vaches
  • Fillettes on the bord de l'eau
  • Impression d'après-midi le long de la Lys
  • Jardin fleuri sous soleil couchant
  • Jeunes filles jouant au bord de la rivière
  • Journée ensoleillée dans le verger
  • La commode
  • La cruche aux fleurs
  • Les Arbres ensoleillés
  • Les tonneliers
  • Mère et enfants
  • Moeder en kind
  • Moederschap
  • Nature morte aux fleurs
  • Nature morte aux porcelaines
  • Paysage
  • Personnages on the river bank
  • Petunia's in witte vaas
  • Portrait d'Emile Claus
  • Retour de l'école
  • Still life
  • Terugkeer van het veld
  • The Easter parade
  • The hayricks
  • The orchard
  • Three girls in white dresses near a lake in the forest
  • Three young girls in white dresses near a lake on a summer's day
  • Two bathing nudes
  • Vase garni de fleurs
  • Vent et soleil
  • Zomerlandschap
  • Zondag lang de leie

literature

  • Johan de Smet: Sint-Martens-Latem en de kunst aan de Leie, 1870-1970, Lannoo, 2000 ISBN 90-400-9526-4
  • Katlijne Van der Stighelen and Mirjam Westen: Elck zijn waerom: vrouwelijke kunstenaars in België en Nederland 1500-1950, Gent, Ludion, 1999, ISBN 90-5544-271-2
  • Serge Goyens de Heusch: L'impressionnisme et le fauvisme en Belgique, Paris, Fonds Mercator, 1988, ISBN 90-615-3420-8
  • Chris Weymeis: Jenny Montigny, kunstenares van de Latemse school, De Standaard, December 17, 1993
  • Kredietbank: 9 vrouwen, 9 x art: vrouwelijke kunstenaars actief rond de eeuwwisseling, Brussels, Piet Jaspaert, 1988

Web links

Commons : Jenny Montigny  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Karel Blondeel: Vrouwelijke schilders in Gent (1880-1914), een socio-historical study , University of Gent
  2. ↑ a b Galerie Oscar De Vos - biography of Jenny Montigny ( memento of the original from November 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ,  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oscardevos.be
personal data
SURNAME Montigny, Jenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montigny, Jeanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1937
Place of death Sint-Martens-Latem , Belgium