Géo Bernier (16 July 1862 – 28 December 1918) was a
Belgian
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painter of landscapes and portraits, but principally of horses. He was also a poster designer. Born in
Namur
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Namu ...
, he moved to
Brussels
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in 1880. He died in
Ixelles
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.
He was the husband of the artist
Jenny Hoppe
Jenny Hoppe (1870 – 1924) was a German-Belgian painter who painted portraits, landscapes, interiors, flowers, swastikas, and still lifes in a Post-Impressionistic style.
Life
Hoppe was born in Düsseldorf, the daughter of the designer an ...
and father of the composer
René Bernier
René Eugène Camilla Henri Alfred Albert Bernier ( Saint-Gilles, 10 March 1905 - Elsene, 8 September 1984) was a Belgian teacher at western canada high school who dabbled in music.
Biography
René Bernier was a son of the painters Géo Bernier ...
and of an ephemeral mayor of
Saint-Gilles, Fernand Bernier.
[cf]
their tomb
pictures taken on May 28, 2022 for Geneanet
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Works
File:Geo Bernier001.JPG, Mounted Hussar (drawing, 1918; privately owned)
File:Geo Bernier 002.JPG, Sunday Morning in Flanders (oil on canvas; property of Commune of Saint-Gilles)
File:Géo Bernier 003.JPG, Construction of Breakwater, Heyst (oil on canvas, privately owned)
File:Géo Bernier - Ossen met gespan.JPG, Oxen in Yoke (oil on canvas; privately owned)
File:The Sleeping Water by Geo Bernier, undated - Museum M - Leuven, Belgium - DSC05459.JPG, The Sleeping Water (oil on canvas; Museum M Leuven)
File:Géo Bernier - Zomerlandschap met hoeve.JPG, Summer Landscape with Farm (oil on canvas; privately owned)
File:Cows in a Meadow by Geo Bernier, undated - Museum M - Leuven, Belgium - DSC05455.JPG, Cows in a Meadow (oil on canvas; M-Museum Leuven)
Further reading
* G. Van Zype: "Georges Bernier" in ''Nos peintres'', 2nd series, Brussels, 1904, pp. 23–34
* J. Potvin, Géo Bernier, 1926: ''Le dernier des animaliers''. Brussels: SA M. Weissenbruch
* ''La peinture animalière en Belgique au XIX' siècle'', Brussels 1982, pp. 62, 147 et 148, 154, 166
* "Bernier Géo" in ''Nos Contemporains, Portraits et biographies des personalités belges ou résidant en Belgique, connues par l'œuvre littéraire, artistique ou scientiphique, ou par l'action politique par l'influence morale ou sociale''. Brussels 1904, pp. 242–244
* "Bernier-Hoppe Jenny" in ''Nos Contemporains, Portraits et biographies des personalités belges ou résidant en Belgique, connues par l'œuvre littéraire, artistique ou scientiphique, ou par l'action politique par l'influence morale ou sociale.'' Brussels 1904, pp. 244–245
*P. Piron: ''De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw (2 delen)''; Uitgeverij Art in Belgium (1999)
* Danny Lannoy, Frieda Devinck, Thérèse Thomas, 2007: ''Impressionisten in Knocke & Heyst (1870-19140''. Oostkamp: Stichting Kunstboek
References
External links
Géo Bernier
Monographie de Saint-Gilles lez-Bruxelles
1862 births
1918 deaths
People from Namur (province)
19th-century Belgian painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
20th-century Belgian painters
Animal painters
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts alumni
20th-century Belgian male artists
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