Joseph Minjon
Peter Joseph Minjon (* 1816 in Düsseldorf ; † 1898 there ) was a German vedute and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .
Life
Minjon attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1832 to 1839 . There were Karl Friedrich Schaffer (1832/1833), Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1832/1833) and Theodor Hildebrandt (1835-1837, 1839) his teachers. In the middle of the 19th century he had acquired the reputation of an “architectural painter” by specializing in “vedutas of smaller cities on the Rhine and Moselle”. Minjon lived in Düsseldorf , where he belonged to the artists' association Malkasten and was a teacher of the flower painter Wilhelm Drinhausen (1821–1875). In 1862 he stayed in the Willingshausen painters' colony . Study trips also took him to Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands.
In 1864 Minjon married Pauline Münzenberger (* 1832), the daughter of the Düsseldorf art dealer, drawing teacher and real estate dealer Georg Münzenberger (1804–1870) and sister of the priest Ernst Franz August Münzenberger . Minjon had four children with her.
literature
- Minjon, Joseph . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume II, p. 61
- Thieme-Becker , Volume XXIV (1930), p. 579
Web links
- Joseph Minjon , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Joseph Minjon , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .de
- Painting by Minjon, 1851, Düsseldorfer Schule , video in the portal zdf.de (excerpt from the program Bares für Rares on June 13, 2017, 7:36 min)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
- ^ Friedrich Steger : Supplementary Conversation Lexicon . Romberg, Leipzig / Meißen 1850, article Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule . Supplementary Sheets, Volume 9, Volume 3, p. 466 ( Google Books )
- ^ Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter : Düsseldorf artists from the last twenty-five years . Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 367 ( Google Books )
- ^ Moritz Blanckarts : The Art Academy in Düsseldorf and the Düsseldorf School . In: Rudolf Gottschall (ed.): Our time. German review of the present . Fifth volume, 13th issue (July 1, 1869), Brockhaus, Leipzig 1869, p. 39 ff., 54 ( Google Books )
- ↑ Inventory list , website in the malkasten.org portal , accessed on June 13, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Minjon, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Minjon, Peter Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German vedute and genre painter from the Düsseldorf School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1816 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1898 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |