DOI Heft:
No. 110 (May, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Monypenny, Emma L.: The art of Edmond Theodore van Hove
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0280
E. T. Van Hove
"THE AWAKENING OF JESUS"—CENTRAL PANEL OF A TRIPTYCH BY E. T. VAN HOVE
the Royal Academy of his native city, he started have caught his ideal from the glorious severity
the battle of life in the atelier of a painter on glass, and accuracy of detail of Holbein, and on his
Making the most of this experience, he passed on return to Bruges, with the Grand Prix de Rome, he
to Paris, where he worked for a time at fan-paint- was able, with a more cultured mind, to give
ing, and entered the Ticole des Beaux-Arts. Next himself enthusiastically to the study of Memling
we find him in the studio of Cabanel, the wise and the Van Eycks. At any rate these three
master whose principle it was to guide the afterwards exercised a powerful influence over his
natural trend of a pupil, and who sent fbrth subjects and the rendering of them. His first
into the art - world men like Bastien-Lepage, picture, a Head ofJohn the Baptist, was accepted by
Besnard, Chartran, Jean Veber, Carriere, and the Museum at Antwerp. Next we find The Faience
Edmond van Hove, each strong in the strength Painter well received, while The Goldsmith, The
of his own individuality. Here our artist not Miser Counting his Money, and The Banker, found
only learned execution, simplicity, and decision their way to England.
as a draughtsman, but knowledge of truth, i.e., His first important picture, which the writer saw
the seizing of facts and the ordering of them in progress, and afterwards at the Paris Exhibition
by force of intellect so as to make them memor- (it having the year before gained a medal at
able and beautiful to the visible and inward eye the Salon), was a triptych, Ahhimie, Sorcellerie,
of all who behold. According to the theory of Scolastique—quaint in subject, beautiful in draw-
Mr. Ruskin he grasped the first merit of manipula- ing, and subdued in colour. Two distinctly
tion, " that delicate, ceaseless expression of a touch, fifteenth - century savants are trying to discover
which makes every hair's-breadth of importance, on the nude figure of a girl sorceress the exact
and every gradation full of meaning." spot where, according to tradition, the Devil is
While yet in Paris Mr. van Hove may located. This picture was sold in Berlin.
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"THE AWAKENING OF JESUS"—CENTRAL PANEL OF A TRIPTYCH BY E. T. VAN HOVE
the Royal Academy of his native city, he started have caught his ideal from the glorious severity
the battle of life in the atelier of a painter on glass, and accuracy of detail of Holbein, and on his
Making the most of this experience, he passed on return to Bruges, with the Grand Prix de Rome, he
to Paris, where he worked for a time at fan-paint- was able, with a more cultured mind, to give
ing, and entered the Ticole des Beaux-Arts. Next himself enthusiastically to the study of Memling
we find him in the studio of Cabanel, the wise and the Van Eycks. At any rate these three
master whose principle it was to guide the afterwards exercised a powerful influence over his
natural trend of a pupil, and who sent fbrth subjects and the rendering of them. His first
into the art - world men like Bastien-Lepage, picture, a Head ofJohn the Baptist, was accepted by
Besnard, Chartran, Jean Veber, Carriere, and the Museum at Antwerp. Next we find The Faience
Edmond van Hove, each strong in the strength Painter well received, while The Goldsmith, The
of his own individuality. Here our artist not Miser Counting his Money, and The Banker, found
only learned execution, simplicity, and decision their way to England.
as a draughtsman, but knowledge of truth, i.e., His first important picture, which the writer saw
the seizing of facts and the ordering of them in progress, and afterwards at the Paris Exhibition
by force of intellect so as to make them memor- (it having the year before gained a medal at
able and beautiful to the visible and inward eye the Salon), was a triptych, Ahhimie, Sorcellerie,
of all who behold. According to the theory of Scolastique—quaint in subject, beautiful in draw-
Mr. Ruskin he grasped the first merit of manipula- ing, and subdued in colour. Two distinctly
tion, " that delicate, ceaseless expression of a touch, fifteenth - century savants are trying to discover
which makes every hair's-breadth of importance, on the nude figure of a girl sorceress the exact
and every gradation full of meaning." spot where, according to tradition, the Devil is
While yet in Paris Mr. van Hove may located. This picture was sold in Berlin.
265