Jean Benner
Jean Benner (28 March 1836, in Mulhouse – 28 October 1906, in Paris) was a French artist. He was twin to fellow artist, Emmanuel Benner, and the father of Many Benner, Emmanuel M. Benner, another artist. Early life Twins Jean and Emmanuel Benner were born in March 1836 in Mulhouse, Alsace, France to Jean Benner-Fries.John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins. Cyclopedia of painters and paintings'. C. Scribner's sons; 1913. p. 139.
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Career

The Benner brothers were first designers at Mulhouse mills and factories. By 30 years of age, Jean was able to study art with Léon Bonnat, Eck and Jean-Jacques Henner and exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1868. In 1881 he won his first medal there for this painting ''Le Repos.''

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Jean Benner-Fries
Jean Benner-Fries, also known as Jean Benner and Jean Benner the elder (1796–1849), was a French painter and textile designer.''Jean Benner (1796–1849).''
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Early life

He was born in 1764 Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, or, by other accounts, in Staufen, Aargau, Staufen, Switzerland (until 1798, Mulhouse was an Republic of Mulhouse, independent Republic with stronger ties to Switzerland than to France.)

Career

Benner-Fries was a naturalism (visual art), naturalist painter, with exotic flowers being his preferred subject. Throughout his life, he worked in Paris and England, but was most active in his native town of Mulhouse, where the Musée de l'impression sur étoffes co ...
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