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Théodore Baron
Théodore Baron (19 August 1840 - 4 September 1899) was a Belgian landscape painter in the Realism (arts), Realistic style. Biography He was initially trained in the Academicism, Academic style; first by Hippolyte de la Charlerie in Brussels, then by Louis Dubois (painter), 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 Plein aire, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ixelles
(French language, French, ) or (Dutch language, Dutch, ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Pentagon (Brussels), Brussels' city centre, it is exclave, geographically bisected by the City of Brussels. It is also bordered by the municipalities of Auderghem, Etterbeek, Forest, Belgium, Forest, Uccle, Saint-Gilles, Belgium, Saint-Gilles and Watermael-Boitsfort. , the municipality had a population of 88,521 inhabitants. The total area is , which gives a population density of . In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally Multilingualism, bilingual (French–Dutch). It is generally considered an affluent area of the region, and is particularly noted for its communities of Brussels and the European Union, European and Congolese immigrants. Geography Ixelles is located in the south-east of Brussels and is divided into two parts by the Avenue Loui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florent Crabeels
Florent Nicolas Crabeels (5 December 1829, Antwerp – 7 June 1896, Antwerp) was a Belgian Genre art, genre and landscape painter. Life and work He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, with Jacob Jacobs (artist), Jacob Jacobs and Egide Linnig. At first, he painted scenes from villages and small town markets. Later, he turned to landscapes from the Campine, Kempen region, and became an ardent supporter of painting Plein aire, en plein air. Much of his work was done in the artists' colony at Wechelderzande, together with , Jacques Rosseels (1828–1912), and Adriaan Jozef Heymans; a member of the of landscape painting. In 1886, he was one of the founding members of "L’Art Indépendant". He became a Neo-Impressionist and returned to painting genre scenes around 1890. In addition to being a painter, he was also well known as an engraver. Sources * Paul Bergmans: "Crabeels, Florent Nicolas". In: Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): ''All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namur
Namur (; ; ) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is the capital both of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration. Namur stands at the confluence of the rivers Sambre and Meuse and straddles three different regions – Hesbaye to the north, Condroz to the south-east, and Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse to the south-west. The city of Charleroi is located to the west. The language spoken is French. The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Beez, Belgrade, Boninne, Bouge, Champion, Cognelée, Daussoulx, Dave, Erpent, Flawinne, Gelbressée, Jambes, Lives-sur-Meuse, Loyers, Malonne, Marche-les-Dames, Namur proper, Naninne, Saint-Servais, Saint-Marc, Suarlée, Temploux, Vedrin, Wépion, and Wierde. History Early history The town began as an important trading settlement in Celtic times, straddling east–west and north–south trade rout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Profondeville
Profondeville (; ) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. On January 1, 2016, Profondeville had a total population of 12,117. The total area of the municipality is and the population density is 240.70 inhabitants per km². The original municipality of Profondeville was expanded, during the post-1974 fusion of the Belgian municipalities, with the addition of the '' ancienne communes'' of Arbre, Bois-de-Villers, Lesve, Lustin, Rivière and the Lakisse area from the southeast of the newly-adjoining municipality of Floreffe. Gallery File:Profondeville, église Saint-Remy foto10 2012-06-30 16.36.JPG, Profondeville, church: église Saint-Remy File:Rivière, kerk foto5 2012-06-30 16.16.JPG, Rivière, church Twin towns * Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (; or ; ; ), simply Roquebrune until 1921, is a Communes of France, commune in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Lemonnier
Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (; 24 March 1844 – 13 June 1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist. He was a member of the Symbolist ''La Jeune Belgique'' group, but his best known works are realist. His first work was ''Salon de Bruxelles'' (1863), a collection of art criticism. His best known novel is ''Un Mâle'' (1881). Biography Lemonnier was born in Ixelles, Brussels. He studied law, and then took a clerkship in a government office, which he resigned after three years. He published a ''Salon de Bruxelles'' in 1863, and again in 1866. His early friendships were chiefly with artists; and he wrote art criticisms with recognized discernment. In 1868 he was a founding member of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts, an avant-gardist group whose ideals he championed. Taking a house in the hills near Namur, he devoted himself to sport, and developed the intimate sympathy with nature which informs his best work. ''Nos Flamands'' (1869) and ''Croquis d'automne'' (1870) date f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anseremme
Anseremme (; ) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Dinant, located in the province of Namur, Belgium. Anseremme is situated where the river Lesse and Meuse meet. The agricultural sector and tourism are the most important source of income for the region. History The municipality used to be a department of the ''Sambre and Meuse'' which was a French department of the Netherlands. Since the fifteenth century and for more than two hundred years, the area was under control by an old and mighty Dinant family, the Aux Brebis. Tourism Several tourism-related businesses offer a rental service for Kayak from Gendron (12 km) or Houyet Houyet () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 4,485 inhabitants. The total area is 122.31 km², giving a population density of 37 ... (21 km) to sail down the river Lesse. Belgium's most important ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octave Maus
Octave Maus (12 June 1856 – 26 November 1919) was a Belgian art critic, writer, lawyer and cousin of the painters Anna and Eugène Boch. Maus worked with fellow writer/lawyer Edmond Picard, and they together with Victor Arnould and Eugène Robert founded the weekly ''L'Art moderne'' in 1881. In 1884 Maus was elected the secretary of the recently formed Les XX, and his responsibilities included the organization of the annual exhibitions. In 1893 Maus advocated the dissolution of Les XX. In 1894 he founded La Libre Esthétique. The composer Poldowski (daughter of Henryk Wieniawski) was a neighbour and lifelong friend of Maus's. She dedicated some of her song settings to Maus and his wife Madeleine, and her 1923 series of midday recitals at the Hyde Park Hotel in London, known as ''The International Concerts of La Libre Esthétique'', attracted Arthur Rubinstein Arthur Rubinstein Order of the British Empire, KBE OMRI (; 28 January 1887 – 20 December 1982) wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félicien Rops
Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (; 7 July 1833 – 23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism (arts), Symbolism, Decadence, and the Parisian , a member of the Les XX group. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and a prolific and innovative print maker, particularly in Intaglio (printmaking), intaglio (etching and aquatint). Although not well known to the general public and initially sought after as a Pornography, pornographer, Rops was greatly respected by his Bohemianism, bohemian peers and actively pursued and celebrated as an illustrator by the publishers, authors, and poets of his time. He provided frontispieces and illustrations for works by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Charles De Coster, Théophile Gautier, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Stéphane Mallarmé, Joséphin Péladan, Paul Verlaine, Voltaire, and many others. Best known today for his prints and drawings illustrating erotic and occult literature of the period, he also produced oil pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesse
The Lesse is a river in the Ardennes, in the Walloon region of Belgium. It is a right tributary to the river Meuse. The source of the Lesse is near Libramont-Chevigny, in the Belgian province of Luxembourg. The Lesse flows roughly in north-western direction. Near Han-sur-Lesse (municipality of Rochefort) the entire river goes underground, flowing through limestone caves. Many of the caves along the banks of the Lesse are important archaeological sites; these include the Trou de Chaleux (by the Cirque de Chaleux), and the Trou des Nutons and Trou du Frontal at Furfooz. The Lesse flows into the river Meuse in the village of Anseremme, municipality of Dinant. Towns along the Lesse are Daverdisse, Han-sur-Lesse, Houyet Houyet () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 4,485 inhabitants. The total area is 122.31 km², giving a population density of 37 ... and Anseremme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meuse
The Meuse or Maas is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a total length of . History From 1301, the upper Meuse roughly marked the western border of the Holy Roman Empire with the France in the Middle Ages, Kingdom of France, after Count Henry III, Count of Bar, Henry III of Bar had to receive the western part of the County of Bar (''Barrois mouvant'') as a French fief from the hands of King Philip IV of France, Philip IV. In 1408, a Burgundian army led by John the Fearless went to the aid of John III, Duke of Bavaria, John III against the citizens of Liège, who were in open revolt. After the Battle of Othée, battle, which saw the men from Liège defeated, John ordered the drowning in the Meuse of burghers and noblemen in Liège whose loyalties he suspected. The border remained relatively stable until the annexation of the Three Bishoprics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 emphasized the "free and individual interpretation of nature," a hallmark of Realist art, while also embracing avant-garde ideals such as struggle, transformation, liberty, progress, innovation, and inclusivity." The society published the periodicals ''L'Art Libre'', a bi-monthly review (1871–72), and ''L'Art Universel'' (1873–7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Cloister
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–750 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy. Red pigment made from ochre was one of the first colors used in prehistoric art. The Ancient Egyptians and Mayans colored their faces red in ceremonies; Roman generals had their bodies colored red to celebrate victories. It was also an important color in China, where it was used to color early pottery and later the gates and walls of palaces. In the Renaissance, the brilliant red costumes for the nobility and wealthy were dyed with kermes and cochineal. The 19th century brought the i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
