Barthélemy Menn

Barthélemy Menn ( born May 20, 1815 in Geneva, † October 11, 1893 ) was a Swiss landscape painter.

Life

The young Menn began his art studies in Geneva with Wolfgang -Adam Töpffer and Leonard Lugardon before he went to Paris in 1833 to retrain to Jean -Auguste -Dominique Ingres. In 1835 he followed Ingres in Rome. In 1838 he returned to Paris, where he was attracted by the landscape painters Charles -François Dumouriez, Théodore Rousseau and Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot. He associated with George Sand ( he taught her son Maurice Dudevant ), Chopin and Eugène Delacroix. In 1843 he finally settled in Geneva.

Barthélemy Menn is mainly known for his poetic and idyllic landscapes. He was with Alexandre Calame of the main representatives of the Geneva school of the first half of the 19th century. He was in contact with Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot ( with whom he the great salon of the Castle of Gruyère in 1859-1857 decorated ). , And Gustave Courbet

He was for long years a professor at the Geneva School of Arts ( Ecole des Beaux -Arts ). His most famous student ( 1872-1878 ) was Ferdinand Hodler. He also taught Albert Bartholome, Auguste Baud -Bovy, Eugène Burnand, Edouard Castres, John Graff, Edouard Jean Maire, François Furet and Alfred Rehfous.