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Flori Van Acker
Flori Van Acker or Florimond Marie Van Acker (6 April 1858 – 14 March 1940) was a neo-romantic, impressionist Belgian painter, engraver, stamp designer and director of the Academy of Bruges. Life Flori van Acker was born in Bruges in 1858. His father was a wool trader. Flori van Acker studied at the Academy in Bruges with Bruno Van Hollebeke and Edward Wallaeys, later at the Antwerp academy with Charles Verlat and from 1879 at the Academy of Brussels with Jean-François Portaels and history painter Joseph Stallaert. In line with the trend towards realism of the time, he went to live in the fishing town Knokke in 1882 where he made paintings of the life of the fishermen. There was a large artist colony in Knokke at time which included Alfred Verwee, Louis Artan, Firmin Baes, Richard Baseleer, Alfred Bastien, Henri Cassiers, Franz Courtens and Paul-Jean Clays. In 1883 he came Second in the Belgian Prix de Rome. After several years of travel which took him, among others to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groeningemuseum
The Groeningemuseum is a municipal museum in Bruges, Belgium, built on the site of the medieval Eekhout Abbey. It houses a collection of Flemish and Belgian painting covering six centuries, from Jan van Eyck to Marcel Broodthaers. The museum's highlights include Early Netherlandish paintings, works by Renaissance and Baroque masters, as well as a selection of paintings from the 18th and 19th century neo-classical and realist periods, milestones of Belgian symbolism and modernism, masterpieces of Flemish Expressionism and many items from the city's collection of post-war modern art. Works include * Jan van Eyck: **'' The Madonna with Canon van der Paele'' (1436) **'' Portrait of Margareta van Eyck'' (1439) **'' Portrait of Christ'' (1440) * Pieter Pourbus * Gerard David ** '' The Judgment of Cambyses Part 1, The Judgment of Sisamnes'' (1498) ** '' The Judgment of Cambyses Part 2, The Flaying of Sisamnes'' (1498) ** '' The Baptism of Christ'' (1502-1508) * Hieronymus Bosch an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Toorop
Johannes Theodorus 'Jan' TooropJan Toorop , 2014. Retrieved on 18 February 2015. (; 20 December 1858 – 3 March 1928) was a -n , who worked in various styles, including |
1940 Deaths
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1858 Births
Events January–March * January – **Benito Juárez (1806–1872) becomes Liberal President of Mexico. At the same time, conservatives install Félix María Zuloaga (1813–1898) as president. **William I of Prussia becomes regent for his brother, Frederick William IV, who had suffered a stroke. * January 9 ** British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong ** Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide. * January 14 – Orsini affair: Felice Orsini and his accomplices fail to assassinate Napoleon III in Paris, but their bombs kill eight and wound 142 people. Because of the involvement of French émigrés living in Britain, there is a brief anti-British feeling in France, but the emperor refuses to support it. * January 25 – The ''Wedding March'' by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional, after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, to Pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veurne-Ambacht
Veurne-Ambacht was a viscounty ( ''kasselrij'', ''burggraafschap'') in the County of Flanders. Agriculture contributed mostly to the prosperous area. In the viscountship's capital city Veurne, the ''Landhuis''In the city of Veurne's center, the name ''Landhuis'' (literally: 'country-house') was given assumedly because it served the countryside – as opposed to the adjacent ''Stadhuis'' (literally: 'city-house' though always meaning the City Hall) that served the city. was the seat of the viscountcy. Nowadays Veurne-Ambacht is the name of the northwestern corner of the Belgian province of West Flanders ) , settlement_type = Province of Belgium , image_flag = Flag of West Flanders.svg , flag_size = , image_shield = Wapen van West-Vlaanderen.svg , shield_size = , image_map .... References External links ''Welcome in Veurne'' Website of Veurne City Geography of West Flanders County of Flanders R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Middeleer
Joseph Middeleer (Ixelles, 1865 – Assebroek, 1934 or 1939)Joseph Middeleer at the Netherlands Institute for Art History was a Belgians, Belgian painter and aquarellist known for his genre scenes, figures, landscapes and still lifes. He was an academically trained artist whose style and themes reflected initially the retro genre style of Belgian Romantic-historical painting. He also dealt with social realist themes and in the 1890s he painted a number of symbolist works.Boudewijn Goossens, ''Joseph Middeleer'' in: ''Dictionnaire des peintres belges'' Life Joseph Middeleer was born in Elsene or Ixelles near Brussels. He studied at the Acadé ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Meerts
Franz Meerts or Frans Meerts ( Ghent, 1836 – Brussels, May 1896) was a Belgian painter and aquarellist known for his interior scenes, genre scenes, still lifes and landscapes.Franz Meerts at the Netherlands Institute for Art History He was also active as an author, publisher and copyist.Boudewijn Goossens, ''Franz Meerts'' in: ''Dictionnaire des peintres belges'' Life Franz Meerts was born in Ghent. He studied in his home town at the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Delville
Jean Delville (19 January 1867 – 19 January 1953) was a Belgian people, Belgian symbolist painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, and Theosophist. Delville was the leading exponent of the Belgian Idealist movement in art during the 1890s. He held, throughout his life, the belief that art should be the expression of a higher spiritual truth and that it should be based on the principle of Ideal, or spiritual Beauty. He executed a great number of paintings during his active career from 1887 to the end of the second World War (many now lost or destroyed) expressing his Idealist aesthetic. Delville was trained at the ''Académie des Beaux-arts'' in Brussels and proved to be a highly precocious student, winning most of the prestigious competition prizes at the Academy while still a young student. He later won the Prix de Rome (Belgium), Belgian Prix de Rome which allowed him to travel to Rome and Florence and study at first hand the works of the artists of the Renaissance. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix De Rome
The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change. History The Prix de Rome was initially created for painters and sculptors in 1663 in France, during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by completing a very difficult elimination contest. To succeed, a student had to create a sketch on an assigned topic while isolated in a closed booth with no reference material to draw on. The prize, organised by the Académie Royale de Peinture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruges
Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the country by population. The area of the whole city amounts to more than 13,840 hectares (138.4 km2; 53.44 sq miles), including 1,075 hectares off the coast, at Zeebrugge (from , meaning 'Bruges by the Sea'). The historic city centre is a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO. It is oval in shape and about 430 hectares in size. The city's total population is 117,073 (1 January 2008),Statistics Belgium; ''Population de droit par commune au 1 janvier 2008'' (excel-file) Population of all municipalities in Belgium, as of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Cassiers
Henri Paul Émile Victor Cassiers, also known as Henry and Hendrick Cassiers (Antwerp, 11 August 1858 - Ixelles - Elsene, 27 February 1944) was a Belgian Art Nouveau artist and illustrator. Early life Born in Antwerp in 1858, Cassiers was the son of Paul Cassiers and Victoire Pelgrims. He studied architecture in Brussels with Paul Saintenoy for six years. He also took courses at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and other schools. Largely self-taught as a painter in watercolours, he became a skilful draughtsman. In 1881, he had his first exhibition of paintings, which went well, and gave up on architecture.Jules du Jardin, ''L’art flamand'', vol VI, “Les artistes contemporains” (Brussels, Arthur Boite), p. 131 At about this time, Cassiers went to live in the fishing town of Knokke, where there was a large artist colony which included Alfred Verwee, Louis Artan, Flori van Acker, Franz Courtens, and later Alfred Bastien and Firmin Baes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knokke
Knokke () is a town in the municipality of Knokke-Heist, which is located in the province of West Flanders in Flanders, Belgium. The town itself has 15,708 inhabitants (2007), while the municipality of Knokke-Heist has 33,818 inhabitants (2009). Knokke is the most north-eastern seaside resort on the Belgian coast. It lies adjacent to the Dutch border; separated from the Dutch territory by the Zwin nature reserve. Knokke came into existence as a result of the construction of dikes that were to protect the area around the 'Zwin' sea-arm. Originally a vacation haven for the city folk of Brussels in the early 19th century, artists such as James Ensor, Alfred Verwee and others started to frequent the small hamlet to paint its beautiful vistas. The artists rented a small miller's cottage and founded the ''Cercle des Artistes'' in 1880. It gradually became a resort town with upscale clientele, restaurants and shops. St. George's Anglican Church serves the English-speaking community. No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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