Louis Janmot
Louis Janmot ( born May 21, 1814 Lyon, † June 1, 1892 ) was a French painter and poet.
Life
Youth and major works in Lyon
Janmot was born the son of a deeply religious Catholic parents. From the death of his brother (1823 ) and his sister (1829 ), he was deeply affected. As students of the Collège Royal de Lyon, he became acquainted with Frédéric Ozanam and other students of the philosophy teacher Abbé Noirot. 1831 Janmot entered the École des Beaux- Arts de Lyon, where he met the Laurier d'Or received the highest honor a year later. In 1836 he went to Paris to take painting lessons with André Jacques Victor Orsel and Jean -Auguste -Dominique Ingres. Together with other Lyonern Janmot joined the Vincent community. In 1835 he followed along with Claudius Lavergne, Jean -Baptiste Frenet and other students to Rome, where he met Hippolyte Flandrin on.
After his return to Lyon in 1836 Janmot tried to draw the attention of critics in the Salon de Paris with large-scale religious paintings such as La Resurrection du fils de la veuve de Naim (1839 ) or Christ au Jardin des Oliviers (1840 ). In 1845 he was with the painting Fleur des Champs at Charles Baudelaire attention of a paragraph dedicated to him in the Salon de 1846. The writer Théophile Gautier was impressed by the Portrait de Lacordaire (1846 ). The failure of his Poème de l' âme for the World Exhibition in 1855 was Janmot back disillusioned. In December of the same year he married a native of a noble family from Carpentras Léonie de Saint- Paulet.
1856 Janmot received the order, a communion Fresco (not included ) for the church of Saint- Polycarpe to customize. There were other jobs, so for the painting of the church dome of Saint -François de Sales or for the town hall, which was being renovated by his friend, the architect T. Desjardins. Janmot was appointed teacher at the École des Beaux -Arts.
Paris and Toulon
To everyone's surprise, Janmot had settled in Paris in 1861, after an order for St- Augustin, he was promised, but this was withdrawn three years later. Plagued by family and financial problems, Janmot took a teaching position at the École des Dominicans d' Arcueil. In addition, produced in his country house in Bagneux zählreiche portraits of his family as a fresco (only photos get ).
After the birth of the seventh child in August 1870 Janmots wife died in Bagneux. Before the approaching Prussian troops who besieged his house, he fled to his father-in to Algiers, where he painted landscapes. He returned in June of the following year returned to Paris, where he lived a lonely life. His house in Bagneux he was robbed before. 1878 completed Janmot a mural in the chapel of Franciscains en Terre Sainte, but no further orders went out this work in itself.
In view of increasing familial and financial problems pulled Janmot to Toulon, where despite some orders it - another version of the Portrait de Lacordaire (1878, Musée de Versailles), Rosaire ( Saint- Germain -en- Laye, 1880), The Martyrdom of saint Christine ( Solliès -Pont, 1882) - a modest existence led. He completed the second part of the Poème de l' âme, since the former industrialist and patron Félix Thiollier had declared ready for publication.
1885 Janmot married a former student, Antoinette Currat, and settled in Lyon. He made charcoal drawings on on the subject of the afterlife, which may be regarded as a kind of continuation of the Poème de l' âme, including Le Purgatoire (1885 ) and La Fin des Temps ( 1888). 1887 of over five hundred page book Opinion d'un artiste sur l'art was published in Lyon and Paris, which contains Janmots previously published articles. Janmot died five years later at the age of 78 years.
Poème de l' âme
The 34 paintings comprehensive Poème de l' âme is Janmots best-known work. For these works he wrote a cycle of poems which the first part appeared in 1854 from the publisher Vingtrinier in Lyon. In the publication of 1881 in Saint- Étienne Janmot completed the poems for a second part, which he corrected in the first part some words, individual verses replaced and added new ones.
The following paintings made Janmot to:
2 Le Passage des âmes
8 Cauchemar
14 Sur la Montagne