Société Libre Des Beaux-Arts
The Société Libre des Beaux-Arts ("Free Society of Fine Arts") was an organization formed in 1868 by Belgian artists to react against academicism and to advance Realist painting and artistic freedom. Based in Brussels, the society was active until 1876, by which time the aesthetic values it espoused had infiltrated the official Salon. It played a formative role in establishing avant-gardism in Belgium. History The first exhibition of the Free Society was held in 1868 to provide an alternative art space beyond the Salon. Three exhibitions were held in 1872. The society's manifesto was written by Camille van Camp and published 31 January, 1869. It promoted the "free and individual interpretation of nature" characteristic of Realist art, along with avant-garde concepts such as "struggle, change, freedom, progress, originality and tolerance." The society published the periodicals ''L'Art Libre'', a bi-monthly review (1871–72), and ''L'Art Universel'' (1873–76). In the firs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Louis Dubois001
Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (other) * Louie (other) * Luis (other) * Louise (other) * Louisville (other) * Louis Cruise Lines * Louis dressing, for salad * Louis Quinze, design style Associated names * * Chlodwig, the origin of the name Ludwig, which is translated to English as "Louis" * Ladislav and László - names sometimes erroneously associated with "Louis" * Ludovic, Ludwig, Ludwick Ludwick is a surname of German origin, and may refer to: * Andrew K. Ludwick (born 1946), American businessman *Christopher Ludwick (1720–1801), American baker * Eric Ludwick (born 1971), American baseball player * Robert Ludwick-Forster (born 19 ..., Ludwik, names sometimes translated to English as "Louis" {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paul Lauters
Paul Lauters or Paul Lauteri (16 July 1806, Brussels – 12 November 1875, Brussels), was a Belgian printmaker, illustrator and painter. Lauters studied under the sculptor Charles Malaise (1775–1836) at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts from 1820 to 1823. From 1823 he worked for the Gouban & Dewasme-Pletinckx lithographic company at the same time as Jean-Baptiste Madou. In 1836 he taught at the École Royale de Gravure. He collaborated with the painter Théodore Fourmois in 1839, producing images of the abbey ruins at Villers-la-Ville. In 1840 Lauters produced illustrations for ''Les Aventures de Till Eulenspiegel'' and for ''Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart''. During this period François Stroobant was his student. In 1846 Lauters illustrated '' Le Juif errant''. In 1848 he was appointed professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Brussels. He illustrated several popular books including ''Les Environs de Bruxelles'' (12 lithographs) and ''La Légende de Thyl Uilenspie ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edouard Huberti
Edouard Jules Joseph Huberti (6 January 1818, Brussels - 12 June 1880, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian landscape painter and watercolorist. Biography He studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, but he was also a gifted singer and violinist. For a time, he worked as a music teacher and wrote some operettas. He taught himself how to paint, produced his first simple oils on cardboard in 1837, and had a small exhibit in Brussels in 1857, but it was 1860 before he began working as a full-time artist, having been attracted to the profession by the growing public acceptance of realistic landscapes, painted en plein aire. To improve his skills, he worked with Théodore Fourmois, who took him to paint in the woods around Tervuren. He soon became involved in the artists' colony there, attending discussions at the local tavern, which led to the founding of the ; one of several groups devoted to landscapes that developed in Belgium and the Netherlands around that ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Adrien-Joseph Heymans
Adriaan Jozef Heymans (or Adrien-Joseph Heymans; 11 June 1839 in Antwerp – December 1921 in Brussels) was a Belgian impressionist landscape painter. Biography His father was a trader in window-glass, who died when Heymans was only seven. Afterward, he was partly raised by his uncle, the mayor of Wechelderzande, a small village near Antwerp, where he first learned to appreciate nature. In 1853, he entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), where he studied under Jacob Jacobs, later attending the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, but he always considered himself to be essentially self-taught. During a stay in Paris from 1855 to 1858, he was strongly influenced by the Barbizon School. By the time of the Brussels Salon in 1860, he was turning toward impressionism. He soon returned to Wechelderzande and began painting plein air, both there and in the vicinity of Kalmthout. Many other painters came to the Kempen area seeking inspiration; often living in tent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hippolyte De La Charlerie
Hippolyte de la Charlerie (1827–1869) was a Belgian painter and illustrator. Life and work De la Charlerie was born in Mons. He studied art at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (1843–51) and with Théodore Baron. He was a cofounder of the Atelier Saint-Luc at Brussels, but spent much of his time in Paris, where he established himself as an illustrator for collectors' editions of books. Among his engravings are scenes of the French Revolution, which he also created for ''La Révolution Française'' (1862) by M.J.G.D Armengaud. He is also noted for a painting of the 17th-century composer and musician Jean-Baptiste Lully which was well received at the Salon of Paris in 1869. Lully is shown as a boy of around twelve years old playing his violin in the kitchen of the Duchesse de Montpensier, his patroness. In 1868, de la Charlerie was one of the founding members of the avant-gardist Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, but died only a year later in Ixelles, a fashionable su ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles De Groux
Charles de Groux or Charles Degroux (25 August 1825 – 30 March 1870)Charles de Groux at the Netherlands Institute for Art History was a French painter, engraver, lithographer and illustrator.Charles Corneille Auguste De Groux at geneanet As he moved to Belgium at a young age and his whole career took place in Belgium he is usually referred to as a Belgian artist. His depictions of scenes from the life of the disadvantaged and lower-class people of his time mark him as the first Belgian [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joseph Coosemans
Joseph Théodore Coosemans (19 March 1828, Brussels – 24 September 1904, Schaerbeek) was a Belgian landscape painter. Life and work His father, Adriaan, was a merchant, who died when Joseph was only a year old. His mother, Anna, died the following year and he was placed in the care of an aunt. After studies at a Jesuit college in Brussels, he took a job as a notary in Tervuren. He later worked as a clerk for a horse farm, and held several clerical positions for the city governments in Tervuren and Duisburg. These areas were favorite spots for artists, which led him to develop an interest in painting. Under the influence of Théodore Fourmois, he decided to specialize in landscapes. He held his first exhibition in 1863. He remained entirely self-taught. In 1868, he was one of the co-founders of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts; originally a small workshop, later a sort of free academy. After 1872, he devoted himself exclusively to painting. During this time, he became one o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marie Collart-Henrotin
Marie Collart-Henrotin (5 December 1842 – 8 October 1911) was a Belgian artist who mainly painted landscapes and animals. Biography She was born in Brussels. Collart was primarily self-taught as an artist, but benefited from the advice of Alfred Verwee, and the art dealer and critic . She became a founding member of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts in 1868. In 1870, she won a gold medal at the Salon des artistes français. In 1871, Collart married Edmond Henrotin, an artillery captain; he died in 1894. She became the first women to be named a Chevalier in the Belgian Order of Leopold in 1880. She won gold medals at exhibitions in Ghent (1881), in Paris and in Brussels (1897). Collart exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Collart died at in Sardinia at the age of 68. Her work is included in the collections of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp The Royal Museum of Fi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paul Jean Clays
Paul Jean Clays (27 November 1819 – 10 February 1900) was a Belgian artist known for his marine paintings. Biography In 1851 he made his debut at the Paris Salon and, while he tried to stay in the mainstream, his art was heralded by those who were looking for a change to more realism. In 1852 he married Marie-Isaure (d. 1860), the daughter of the director of the Brussels Observatory, and moved to Antwerp where he lived from 1852 to 1856; it was during this period that his fortunes began to improve. In 1856 he and his family moved to Brussels where he became a prolific artist, specializing in scenes along the Scheldt. He exhibited a number of works at the Exposition Universelelle of 1867 and the critic Burger-Thoré described him as one of the greatest marine painters of the time. In 1868 he became a member of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, a society founded on 1 March 1868 to help promote the works of artists who were interested in their individual interpretation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Antoine-Félix Bouré
Antoine-Félix Bouré (8 July 1831 – 8 April 1883), known in his own time as Félix Bouré but sometimes found in modern scholarship as Antoine Bouré, was a Belgian sculptor, best known for his monumental sculpture, monumental lions. Life and career Bouré was born in Brussels as the Belgian Revolution, Belgian war of independence was drawing to a close. He studied locally first under Guillaume Geefs and then from 1846 to 1852 under Eugène Simonis at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Royal Academy for Fine Art, going abroad to complete his training at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Academy of Fine Arts at Florence. In his studies, he followed the same course as his older brother, Paul Bouré. Paul died in his mid-twenties when Antoine-Félix was only 17. Bouré was among the artists whose work was exhibited at the Musée Bovie, a ''grand maison'' built by the painter Virginie Bovie on the Rue de Trône, Brussels. In 1868, he was one of sixteen co-founders of the Soc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Théodore Baron
Théodore Baron (19 August 1840, Ixelles - 4 September 1899, Saint-Servais) was a Belgian landscape painter in the Realistic style. Biography He was initially trained in the Academic style; first by Hippolyte de la Charlerie in Brussels, then by Louis Dubois, Guillaume Van der Hecht, and François-Joseph Navez. By 1860, he was already working at the artists' colony in Genk, making him a member of the . In 1863, together with Louis Artan, he explored the wooded areas around Brussels and came into contact with artists painting en plein aire. During that time, he developed a predilection for creating more realistic landscapes than those he had studied. From 1865 to 1868, he lived in Kalmthout and focused on painting the typically desolate landscapes found in the Campine region. There, he met a group of like-minded artists; Jacques Rosseels (1828-1912), , Adrien-Joseph Heymans and Florent Crabeels, generally referred to as the . He returned to Brussels in 1868, and renewed his ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |