Jeanne modigliani biography book
Jeanne Modigliani
Italian essayist
Jeanne Modigliani (born Giovanna Hébuterne, 29 November – 27 July )[1] was an Italian-French historian of Jewish art mostly known for her biographical research on her father, artist Amedeo Modigliani. In she wrote the book Modigliani: Man and Myth, later translated into English from the Italian by Esther Rowland Clifford.[2]
Early life
Jeanne’s father, Amedeo Modigliani, was an Italian Jewish artist who worked mainly in France.
Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterised by mask-like faces (without eyes) and elongation of form. He died in of tubercular meningitis, exacerbated by poverty, overwork, and addiction to alcohol and narcotics.
Her mother, Jeanne Hébuterne, was a French artist, best known as Amedeo Modigliani's frequent subject and common-law wife.
When Modigliani died, on January 24, , the twenty-one-year-old Hébuterne was eight months pregnant with their second child. A day after Modigliani's death, Hébuterne was taken to her parents' home. There, inconsolable, deeply depressed, eight months pregnant, and in despair, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window, killing herself and her unborn second child.
Her daughter, Jeanne, who was named after her, was only 14 months old.
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World War II
Jeanne first married the Italian Jewish economist and journalist Mario Cesare Silvio Levi (born ), brother of the more famous Natalia Ginzburg.
She later was identified and persecuted as a Jew by the fascists, fleeing to Paris.[3] During World War II, she participated in the French Resistance. During this time she met another Resistance fighter, Valdemar "Valdi" Nechtschein (his nom de guerre was Victor Leduc), who was also married.
They began an affair, and in May , Jeanne gave birth to their daughter, Anne.
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Later life
Jeanne married Mario Levi during the Second World War allegedly to assist Levi’s legal residency in France, they divorced shortly afterwards. Jeanne and Valdemar Nechtschein divorced in
Following a fall that caused a cerebral hemorrhage, Jeanne died in a Paris hospital in [4]