International studio (55.1915)

Belgian Artists in England

PORTRAIT MEDAL

BY PAUL WISSAERT


vary its forms through different ages and countries,
but still derives from the same sources of eternal
beauty. Le Calvaire is the title chosen by Jozue
Dupon for a drove of old horses exhausted by a life


of hard labour and doomed to immolation. Every
step brings them nearer to death and ultimate relief
from their sufferings. Their hopeless resignation
has been strikingly rendered by the artist.
We have not yet referred to another sculptor:
Camille Sturbelle, a pupil of Ch. van der Stappen.
His important monumental and decorative works
are erected on public places in Brussels and Liege.
We reproduce a portrait of a child and a funerary
stele by this artist.

Paul Wissaert is a medallist who shows a delicate
touch in his modelling; the double portrait of his
parents and the plaquette symbolising Education,
which he has executed for the society “Les Amis
de la Medaille,” give a good idea of his skill and
refined taste.
Gustave van de Woestyne, who is chiefly a
portrait and figure painter, is represented here with
a Winter Landscape, sharply contrasting with the
generally naturalistic tendencies of Belgian art. It
reveals another side of the Flemish soul, which is
not less interesting : its spiritual and mystical
aspirations. Whilst a sensual, fiery pantheism
culminated in the art of Rubens and Jordaens,
mediaeval faith and piety were admirably expressed
by the “ primitive ” masters, and these two ap-
parently opposed feelings developed side by side
throughout the whole evolution of art in Flanders.
No direct correlation is to be found of course, be-
tween this landscape and any mediaeval Madonna


FUNERARY STELE (d’EVERE CEMETERY)
BY CAMILLE STURBELLE

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