Edmond Aman-Jean

Edmond François Aman -Jean ( born January 13, 1858 in Chevry- Cossigny, Seine- et- Marne, † January 23, 1936 in Paris) was a French painter of the fin de siècle and founder of the Salon des Tuileries.

Life

Aman -Jean studied at the Paris School of Art at Henri Lehmann and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. He was influenced by Japanese art, Ukiyo -e, as well as by the English Pre-Raphaelites. Of his students were, inter alia, the American Charles Hopkinson and the Romanians Theodor Pallady and Nicolae Tonitza.

New friends he was with Georges Seurat, with whom he shared a studio since 1879 in Paris and the symbolist Paul Verlaine, Auguste de Villiers de L' Isle Adam and Stéphane Mallarmé. From 1883-1884, he worked Puvis de Chavannes, 1885, he talked with a travel scholarship in Rome, Naples and Arezzo. In 1887, he traveled together with Georges Seurat to Brussels to visit Vincent Van Gogh.

Aman -Jean initially painted historical and allegorical subjects, including Joan of Arc and Siren Erna, but gained mainly through its decorative fantasy images ( Venezia and others) a name. He also designed posters and created graphics. In the late 1880s he succeeded with his portraits of ladies of the Parisian society of artistic breakthrough. For his portraits of women with slightly more refined and sentimental melancholic darkened attributes he received in 1889 and 1900, the gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition. Since 1897 he was a corresponding member of the Vienna Secession. After several visits Italy he came under the influence of the first world war in a creative crisis. In the early 1920s he took his artistic career again. Along with Auguste Rodin and Albert Besnard he founded 1923 years the "Salon des Tuileries ", which was to develop into one of the major French annual exhibitions. In 1933 he received the appointment as Commander of the Légion d' Honneur for his life's work.

His paintings hang et al today in the Parisian Musée d' Orsay, the Louvre and in the art museums of Nantes, Strasbourg, Douai, Lyon, Rouen, Dijon, in Aachen, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Melbourne and Rio de Janeiro.