Jeanne Hébuterne

Jeanne Hebuterne ( born April 6, 1898 in Meaux, † January 25, 1920 in Paris) was a French painter and model.

Life

Jeanne was the youngest daughter of the accountant Achille Casimir Hebuterne and his wife Eudoxie Anaïs Tellier. As with her ​​older brother, Andre Hebuterne (1894-1992), the parents discovered early artistic talent of her daughter. Along with André they lived in a room in the Montparnasse district of Paris and studied art at the private Académie Colarossi. In order to earn some money to her studies, she got other artists, including Tsuguharu Foujita, model. The writer Charles -Albert Cingria Hebuterne described as gentle, shy, quiet, and with a twist.

In 1917, learned the 19 - year-old student of the 14 -year-older Amedeo Modigliani ( 1884-1920 ) and fell in love. For them, he finished the two-year relationship with the English poet and art critic Beatrice Hastings. Both relative short time later shared a studio in the rue de la Grande Chaumiere. One of the images from Modigliani's Jeanne Hebuterne 1917 is au collier. To escape the German bombs, Modigliani in 1918 moved with his pregnant Hebuterne and their brother to Nice and [ [ Cagnes -sur -Mer ] ], where they remained for over a year and met a lot of friends and painted. On November 29, 1918, she brought her daughter to the world. Amedeo Modigliani recognized the paternity of the child who received the name of the mother, at. During their stay in Nice and the surrounding area they visited frequently Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico and André Derain.

After returning to Paris in May 1919 Jeanne was pregnant again and Modigliani became engaged to her. The Hebuterne family was against the relationship, probably because Modigliani zusprach too much alcohol and hashish, and wanted nothing more to do with the daughter. In a letter from 1919 Modigliani confirmed her as his future wife, and recognized their daughter officially as his child. However, the intent to marry and could not convert because he fell seriously ill with tuberculosis towards the end. On January 24, 1920 Modigliani died at the Charité in Paris of tubercular meningitis. The following day his fiancé committed suicide by, eight months pregnant, jumped from the fifth floor of a house.

Modigliani was interred with great sympathy in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hebuterne was later, after her family had given up resistance to it, is buried beside him. Her daughter, Jeanne Modigliani, called Giovanna (1918-1984), was adopted by Modigliani's sister in Florence Margherita.