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Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe
The Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe (Grand-Duke Adolphe Prize) is a Luxembourgian art award awarded every year to one or more artists exhibiting at the ''Salon Artistique'' of the ''Cercle artistique de Luxembourg'' (CAL). The award is named after Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Grand Duke Adolphe of Luxembourg who created the prize in 1902, on the initiative of his wife Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, who herself was a painter. Award Recipients {{columns-list, colwidth=30em, * 1902: Jean Mich, Sculptor. * 1903: ''No prize awarded.'' * 1904: Dominique Lang and Frantz Seimetz, Painters. * 1905: Albert Breisch, Goldsmith. * 1906: Guido Oppenheim, Painter. * 1907: Auguste van Werveke and Jean Curot, Painters. * 1908: Joseph-Germain Strock, Painter. * 1909: Jean-Baptiste Wercollier and Claus Cito, Sculptors. * 1910: Paul Wigreux, Architect. * 1911: Pierre Blanc, Painter. * 1912: ''No prize awarded.'' * 1913: Angélina Drumaux, Painter, and Etienne Galowich, Metal artist. * 1914: Nicolas B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cercle Artistique De Luxembourg
The Cercle artistique de Luxembourg (CAL), originally the Cercle artistique luxembourgeois, is an association founded in 1893 which brings together artists of all types with a view to supporting artistic work and art education in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg."Cercle artistique de Luxembourg", ''Luxemburger Lexikon'', Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. Its founding members were Michel Engels, Pierre Blanc, and Franz Heidenstein, who was also the association's first president, serving from 1893 to 1899. The organisation's ''Salon du CAL'' exhibition has been held annually since 1896. Among Luxembourg's prominent artists who have exhibited at the salon are Dominique Lang, Emile Kirscht, Michel Stoffel, and Claus Cito."Michel Stoffel" , ''MediArt.lu''. Retrieved 30 January 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Kesseler
Will Kesseler (17 August 1899 - 24 September 1983) was a Luxembourgish painter, considered to be one of nation’s best Colourists. After having taught art, he left the country for the former Belgian Congo and Chad, where he was employed as a project manager for various railway construction companies. These periods abroad deeply influenced his very varied artistic production, which includes still life, flowers, Congo and Luxembourg landscapes, figures, nudes and abstract work. After his rather academic beginnings, the artist, who twice received the Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe (1946 and 1950), turned in 1951 to abstract painting. His Africa inspired gouaches are characterised, as are his other paintings, by expanses of solid colours, pure, vigorous, intense and luminous with strong bold contrasts in which yellow, blue, red and above all contrasting greens dominate. Dynamic geometrical, curving and undulating shapes harmoniously intersect or are superimposed, giving familiar figurativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 1902
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Visual Arts Awards
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Luxembourgian Art
Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; Luxembourgish: ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide. As a standard form of the Moselle Franconian language, Luxembourgish has similarities with other varieties of High German languages, High German and the wider group of West Germanic languages. The status of Luxembourgish as an official language in Luxembourg and the existence there of a regulatory body have removed Luxembourgish, at least in part, from the domain of Standard German, its traditional . History Luxembourgish was considered a German dialect like many others until about World War II but then it underwent Abstand and ausbau languages, ausbau, that is it created its own standard form in vocabulary, grammar and spelling and therefore is seen today as an independent language, an Abstand and ausbau languages, ausbau language. Due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of European Art Awards ...
This list of European art awards covers some of the main art awards given by organizations in Europe. Some are restricted to artists in a particular genre or from a given country or region, while others are broader in scope. The list is organized by region. Eastern Europe South Europe Scandinavia Western Europe United Kingdom See also *Lists of awards *Lists of art awards References {{reflist European European, or Europeans, or Europeneans, may refer to: In general * ''European'', an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe ** Ethnic groups in Europe ** Demographics of Europe ** European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gust Graas
Gust (Gustave) Graas (19 December 1924 – 19 February 2020) was a Luxembourgish abstract painter and businessman who played a major role in the development of the Luxembourg-based radio and television group RTL. Early life Graas was born in Esch-sur-Alzette in the south of Luxembourg. As a teenager, he was a member of the Hitler Youth. During the German occupation of Luxembourg, he was forced to join the Wehrmacht, but managed to desert. After the liberation, he studied law at Louvain and Paris."Gust Grass" , ''mediArt.lu''. Retrieved 19 December 2010. Business career In 1952, after working as a lawyer in , Graas joined CLT RTL as secretary general. In 1975, he ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Kirscht
Emile Kirscht (1913–1994) was a Luxembourg painter who worked with acrylics and gouache on paper. In 1954, he was a co-founder of the Iconomaques group of abstract artists in Luxembourg. Early life Born on 11 June 1913, he was the sixth of seven children in a working-class family in Rumelange in the south of Luxembourg. His father died when he was only four, forcing him to earn a living in a steel mill from an early age. During the Second World War, the Germans deported him after his refusal to join the '' Volksdeutsche Bewegung'' but they later brought him back to work in the Belval steel factory where he remained for the rest of his working life. Without any formal education, he started to paint as a child using a paintbox he had found in a dustbin. He developed his own abilities from the 1940s, soon to be influenced by the lyrical abstract imagery of the Paris School after he went to the 1947 exhibition of French art in Luxembourg City. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kohl
Charles Kohl (16 April 1929 - 3 January 2016) was a sculptor, painter and lecturer from Luxembourg. Biography Born in Rodange (Luxembourg), Charles Kohl started his fine arts studies in Luxembourg-City at the Lycée des Arts et Métiers under Lucien Wercollier (1945–48), then continued at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (1948-1952) and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1953-1955) in Paris. He went on to forge a distinguished career as a fine artist in his native country, being awarded twice the coveted Prix Grand-Duc Adolphe (in 1956 and 1962). He participated in numerous collective international exhibitions but also regularly exhibited at individual exhibitions. Fresh from his studies, Charles Kohl took on teaching in 1956 as assistant professor of arts at first at the Lycée des Arts et Métiers, and later (in the 1970s and 1980s) at the Lycée Technique du Centre in Luxembourg City. Concurrently, he worked as a book illustrator, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Stoffel
Michel Stoffel (1903–1963) was a Luxembourg artist and author. He also worked for a time in the insurance sector. Together with Joseph Kutter, he is considered to be one of Luxembourg's most prominent painters."Stoffel, Michel", ''Luxemburger Lexikon'', Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. Early life and education Stoffel was born on 24 March 1903 in Bissen, central Luxembourg. In 1913, his family moved to Liège where he attended primary and secondary school, although he completed his schooling in Luxembourg at the Lycée de Garçons in Limpertsberg. From 1919, he took a correspondence course at the ''Ecole Universelle de Dessin'' in Paris and, after working in the insurance business for a few years, he completed his studies at the Weimar Academy of Fine Art in 1933."Michel Stoffel" , ''MediArt.lu''. Retrieved 21 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphe, Grand Duke Of Luxembourg
Adolphe (Adolf Wilhelm August Karl Friedrich; 24 July 1817 – 17 November 1905) was Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 23 November 1890 to his death on 17 November 1905. The first grand duke from the House of Nassau-Weilburg, he succeeded King William III of the Netherlands, ending the personal union between the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Adolphe was Duke of Nassau from 20 August 1839 to 20 September 1866, when the Duchy was annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia. Adolphe became Duke of Nassau in August 1839, following the death of his father William. The Duchy was annexed to Prussia after Austria's defeat in the Austro-Prussian War. From 1815 to 1839, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was ruled by the kings of the Netherlands as a province of the Netherlands. Following the Treaty of London (1839), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg became independent but remained in personal union with the Netherlands. Following the death of his sons, the Dutch king William III had no male heirs to succeed him. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kutter
Joseph Jean Ferdinand Kutter (1894–1941) is considered one of Luxembourg's most important painters. He was greatly influenced by the Impressionists but developed his own distinctive Expressionist style. Early life Kutter was born on 12 December 1894 in Luxembourg City where his father, Paul Kutter, was one of the city's early photographers. Hoping to become a painter, he first attended the ''Ecole d'Artisans'' in Luxembourg and then the schools of decorative art in Strasbourg and Munich. From 1917 to 1918, he studied at the Munich Academy where he was introduced to a style of painting inspired by Wilhelm Leibl."Kutter et l'expressionisme européen", Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg, 7 juillet – 19 août 2007". . Artistic career From 1919, after being strongly influenced by Cézanne, he presented his paintings at the Secessionist exhibitions in Munich. Although he returned to Luxembourg in 1924, he continued to exhibit in Munich until 1932 as a result of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
