The Institut Saint-Luc () is an arts school in
Brussels,
Belgium. It consists of six departments, with a total of 2,200 students and 430 employees, spread over five locations in
Ixelles and
Saint-Gilles.
History
The school was founded by members of the
, a French order created in 1680 by
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle in
France. Different Saint-Luc institutes were founded all over Belgium with the first in
Ghent in 1863. The first school in Brussels was founded in 1882 in
Molenbeek
( French, ) or (Dutch, ), often simply called Molenbeek, is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, from which it is separated ...
and then was later relocated to
Schaerbeek in 1887. Work began in 1904 for a new institute in Saint-Gilles, then called the Institut Jean Béthune, and had only 14 students. Construction finished four years later in 1908. The location is currently still in use and underwent renovations and expansions in 1995.
Organisation
The school (called both Institut and Instituts, depending on the point of view) is divided into six departments:
*ESA, the École Supérieure des Arts (Higher School of Arts), with 700 students: studies include a bachelor's (three years), a master's (one additional year), and a specialized master's (one additional year).
*ERG, th
École de Recherche GraphiqueSchool for Graphical Research), with 420 students: studies include a bachelor's (three years), master's (one additional year), and specialized master's (one additional year).
*ISURU, the Institute Supérieure d'Urbanisme et de Rénovation Urbaine (Higher Institute for Urbanism and Urban Renovation), with 85 students: created in 1947, is a post-graduate school with a three-year course (evening studies).
*ISES, The Institut Saint-Luc d'Enseignement Secondaire (Saint-Luc Secondary School), with 610 students.
*EPS, the École de Promotion Sociale (School for Social Promotion), with 340 students.
The comics division
In 1969, comics artist
Eddy Paape, who had worked for 20 years for the two leading
Franco-Belgian comics magazines ''
Spirou'' and ''
Tintin
Tintin or Tin Tin may refer to:
''The Adventures of Tintin''
* ''The Adventures of Tintin'', a comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé
** Tintin (character), a fictional character in the series
** ''The Adventures of Tintin'' (film), 2011, ...
'', started a course in comics, with the support of
Hergé, an alumnus of the Institut. It was the first of its kind in Belgium and was soon developed into a full bachelor's program. Eddy Paape was followed by
Claude Renard Claude may refer to:
__NOTOC__ People and fictional characters
* Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Claude (surname), a list of people
* Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...
in 1976. The course soon become a well-known breeding ground for new Belgian talent. From 1975 and on, the program produced the magazine ''Le 9ème rêve'' (''The 9th Dream'', a reference commonly used in Belgium and France describing comics as the ninth art form). In 1978, the magazine received the
Award for the best promotion of comics from the French
Angoulême International Comics Festival.
François Schuiten, an alumni, also taught at the school. Between 1984 and 2006, 286 students received a Bachelor's in Comics.
About 50% of the students later work in the comics industry.
Notable alumni
*
Kitty Crowther
Kitty Crowther (born 4 April 1970, in Brussels) is a Belgian illustrator and writer of children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awar ...
*
Jean-Michel Folon
*
André Franquin
*
Hergé
*
Philippe Lafontaine
*
Xavier Lust
*
Midam
*
Eddy Paape
*
Guy Peellaert
*
Picha
*
Benoît Poelvoorde
Benoît Poelvoorde (, ; born 22 September 1964) is a Belgian actor and comedian.
Early life
His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still a minor. He attended the Jesuit Boarding School of Godinne before ...
*
Stephan Vanfleteren
Alumni from the architecture division
*
Francis Bonaert
Alumni from the comics division
*
Andreas
*
Jo-El Azara
Joseph Franz Hedwig Loeckx is a Belgian comic book artist. He works under the pseudonym of Jo-El Azara. Important series he has worked on include ''Clifton'' and ''Taka Takata''.
Biography
Loeckx was born in Drogenbos, Flemish Brabant, near Bruss ...
*
Pierre Bailly
Pierre Bailly (March 8, 1889 – January 25, 1973) was a French architect. In 1932 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the ...
*
Philippe Berthet Philippe is a masculine sometimes feminin given name, cognate to Philip. It may refer to:
* Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present)
* Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer
* Prince Philippe, Count ...
*
Frédéric Bézian
Frédéric and Frédérick are the French versions of the common male given name Frederick. They may refer to:
In artistry:
* Frédéric Back, Canadian award-winning animator
* Frédéric Bartholdi, French sculptor
* Frédéric Bazille, Impres ...
*
Antonio Cossu
*
Denis Deprez
Denis may refer to:
People
* Saint Denis of Paris, 3rd-century Christian martyr and first bishop of Paris
* Denis the Areopagite, Biblical figure
* Denis, son of Ampud (died 1236), baron in the Kingdom of Hungary
* Denis the Carthusian (1402–14 ...
*
Chantal de Spiegeleer
Chantal () is a feminine given name of French origin. The name Chantal can be traced back to the Old Occitan word ''cantal'', meaning " stone." It came into popular use as a given name in honor of the Catholic saint, Jeanne de Chantal. It may al ...
*
Franz Drappier Franz may refer to:
People
* Franz (given name)
* Franz (surname)
Places
* Franz (crater), a lunar crater
* Franz, Ontario, a railway junction and unorganized town in Canada
* Franz Lake, in the state of Washington, United States – see Fran ...
*
Philippe Francq
*
Pascal Garray
Pascal Garray (12 December 1965 – 17 January 2017) was a Belgian comics artist and cartoonist best known for his work on Peyo's ''The Smurfs'' and ''Benoît Brisefer'' (known in Dutch as ''Steven Sterk'').
Pascal Garray studied comic art at ...
*
André Geerts
André Geerts (18 December 1955 – 27 July 2010) was a Belgian comics creator best known for his series ''Jojo''.
Biography
André Geerts was born in Brussels in 1955. He studied at the Institut Saint-Luc art school in Brussels. He started work ...
*
Alain Goffin
*
Bernard Hislaire
Bernard Hislaire (born 11 January 1957) is a Belgian comic book creator. He is also known as Sylaire and as Yslaire, his current artist name.
Biography
Bernard Hislaire was born in 1957 in Brussels, Belgium.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Hislaire". In ...
*
Ilan Manouach
Ilan Manouach (Athens, 1980) is an artist with a specific interest in conceptual and post-digital
comics and is also active as a music performer, composer and a book publisher and has produced a few commissions for newspapers such as The New Yor ...
*
Jean-David Morvan
Morvan in 2017.
Jean-David Morvan (born 28 November 1969 in Reims, Marne, France) is a French comics author.
Morvan studied arts at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. Morvan started out as a comics artist, but soon realised that his true str ...
*
Frank Pé
Frank Pé, often signing solely as Frank (15 July 1956) is a Belgian comic book artist, best known for ''Broussaille'' and ''Zoo''.
Biography
Frank Pé was born in Ixelles in 1956.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Frank". In België gestript, pp. 112-113 ...
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Plantu
Jean Plantureux (born March 23, 1951 in Paris), who goes by the professional name Plantu, is a French cartoonist specializing in political satire. His work has regularly appeared in the French newspaper ''Le Monde'' since 1972.
Early life
Jean P ...
*
François Schuiten
*
Benoît Sokal
Benoît Sokal (28 June 1954 – 28 May 2021) was a Belgian comic artist and video game developer, best known for his comics series ''Inspector Canardo'', and the ''Syberia'' adventure game franchise.
Biography
Benoît Sokal was born in Brussels ...
*
Yves Swolfs
Yves Swolfs (born 25 April 1955) is a Belgian comic book writer and artist.
He is most known for his western series ''Durango'', which started in 1980. Among his other works are the vampire series ''Le prince de la Nuit'' (1994–2001); the dystop ...
Notes
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