Lucien Hector Jonas ( fr. Lucien Hector Jonas ; April 8, 1880 , Anzen - September 20, 1947 , Paris ) - French artist. It is considered one of the most prolific French artists of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Biography
Lucien Hector Jonah was born April 8, 1880 in the French commune of Anzen [5] in a wealthy family. His father, Hubert Émile (1849-1902), a native of Belgium, had his own distillery. His mother, Anna Emilia (née Carpentier) early discovered the artistic abilities of her son and encouraged them in every way. Jona studied in the city of Valenciennes with the artist Joseph Lairow, then studied in Paris , at the School of Fine Arts with the artists Albert Maignan, Leon Joseph Florentin Bonna and Henri Joseph Arpini .
After the death of his father in 1902, Zhona returned to Anzen, where he helped his mother manage the distillery. In his hometown, he discovered plots for his paintings. The painting “Consolations” drawn during these years brought the artist a silver medal at the 1905 Exhibition Salon. In 1908, Jonah married Suzanne Louise Bedorez. Three children were born in the marriage.
In 1911, the Supreme Council of Fine Arts awarded the artist a national prize for the painting "La Consultation". In 1912, he painted many portraits; in 1914, he bought a large house in Paris. In 1915 he was appointed a military artist at the Army Museum in Paris. He created portraits of military leaders for the museum, drawings for French magazines L'Illustration , The Annals, Readings for All and for newspapers. During these years he painted about four thousand drawings and about eight hundred paintings.
In 1916 he was appointed official artist of the fleet. He painted battle scenes. Many of his paintings adorned public buildings. In 1929 he was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor .
Since 1933, he collaborated with the Bank of France, created images for French banknotes. He became the author of banknotes Ten Francs Miner and Twenty Francs Fisherman .
During the Second World War he painted illustrations for newspapers, anti-fascist posters, portraits of miners, industrial landscapes. In 1944 he created portraits of generals Koenig , Edgard de Larminat (Paris, Museum of the Order of Liberation ) and Latre de Tassigny . In 1945, he was awarded at the Salon for painting a fourteen-meter mural consisting of one hundred and twenty characters called Furor Teutonicus .
In 1946, Lucien Jonah, already a sick man, created fourteen paintings for the church of Saint Martin in the French commune of Saint-Aman-les-O [6] .
In 1947 he returned to Paris, where he died on September 20. Buried in La Flèche.
Currently, the artist’s paintings are stored in New York - at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , in several French museums ( Carnival [7] , Valenciennes Museum of Fine Arts, City Museum of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux Abbey Tower), in the Royal Palace of Bangkok (Thailand ), in private collections. Many of his works were destroyed during World War II.
Currently, in the city of Anzen, a bust is set for the artist, sculptor Aime-Gustave Blaise.
Gallery
Lucien Jonas. March on a disguised road, 1927
Night bombing from aircraft on the road near Soissons, 1927
Deserted land
Military with their children
Attack
Algerian company
5% French loan
A plane attacks troops from low altitude, 1927
American france
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Lucien Hector Jonas
- ↑ 1 2 Lucien Hector Jonas - 2006. - ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7 , 978-0-19-989991-3
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 123192668 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Archives du Nord, commune d'Anzin, acte de naissance, année 1880 (page 246/617) (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment February 15, 2018. Archived on February 15, 2018.
- ↑ Les Amis de l'église Saint-Martin, Église Saint-Martin, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux, Bayard Service Édition, p. 17. Ces tableaux ont été restaurés en 2009.
- ↑ Lucien Jonas et le décor mural des années 30 à Paris
Literature
- Collectif, Aux Vivants & aux morts, Regard d'artistes sur la Grande Guerre , catalog d'exposition, Musée municipal de la tour abbatiale de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux et Musée d'Archéologie et d'Histoire locale de Denain, Communauté d'Agglomération de la Porte du Hainaut, 2014.
- La Plume et le Marteau, dessins de la mine et de la sidérurgie dans le Denaisis de 1890 à 1947 , Musée d'Archéologie et d'Histoire locale de Denain, 2011.
- Philippe Gayot, Yvette Martin Chantraine, Lucien Jonas, Des églises aux usines , Musée municipal de la tour abbatiale de Saint-Amand-les-Eaux et Musée d'Archéologie et d'Histoire locale de Denain, Communauté d'Agglomération de la Porte du Hainaut, 2006.
- Emmanuelle Delapierre, L'empreinte d'une ville: les grands décors valenciennois de Lucien Jonas , Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes, Un Deux ... Quatre Éditions, 2006.
- Christophe Leribault, Lucien Jonas et le décor mural des années 30 à Paris , catalog d'exposition, Musée Carnavalet, 2003.
- Lucien Jonas - rétrospective , IRO La Rochelle, mai 2003.
- Florence Rionnet, Lucien Jonas (1880-1947), le bonheur simple , [catalog de l'exposition], Dinard, musée-villa Eugénie, 2002.
- Emmanuel Bénézit, "Lucien Jonas", in Dictionnaire Bénézit , Éditions Gründ, 1999.
- Catalog de l'exposition au Musée Faure, Aix-les-Bains, juillet-août 1999.
- Lucien Jonas, Splendeurs du pays noir , [catalog de l'exposition], Musée Théophile Jouglet à Anzin, 1997.
- Lucien Jonas "Fusains de la Grande Guerre" en 2 Volumes (850 Fusains Edition JP Fontanon 63120 Sermentizon 2016 et 2017).
Links
- Images et Peintures de Lucien Jonas ; Seminaire de lille
- Lucien JONAS, Peintre "Officiel" ou "Témoin"?