DOI issue:
No. 261 (December 1914)
DOI article:Buschmann, P.: Belgian artists in England, [1]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0198
Belgian Artists in England
has also revealed himself as a sculptor of rare winters on the Cdte d'Azur, and was just preparing
merit in a competition for a monument to the a complete exhibition of his work when war broke
Flemish composer, Peter Benoit. His model was out. Besides landscapes, he paints portraits and
awarded the first prize, and was much appreciated still-life pictures.
by Aug. Rodin, but may we hope to see it ever Another Brussels artist, Louis G. Cam bier, has
erected in unfortunate Antwerp ? travelled in the Holy Land, in Turkey, Brittany,
A thoroughly honest and sympathetic artist is Italy, &c. He studied in Paris under Maurice
Edgard Farasyn, working in the surroundings of Denis, whose impulse he followed, and contributed
Antwerp and also on the Flemish coast. His to the renovation of modern religious art. His-
shrimp-fishers on horseback, doing their hard work wife, Mme. Juliette Cambier, is a distinguished
on the sandy shores of the North Sea, are figures painter of flowers.
of high character, leaving a strong impression on Amongst the painters from the southern, i.e., the
every sensitive spectator. . Walloon part of Belgium, we mention Alexandre
Pretty little Lierre, on the Nethe near Antwerp, Marcette, who was born at Spa, and though living
with its old churches, beguinages, and picturesque in Brussels has become fully acclimatised on the
houses, now almost entirely destroyed by German banks of the Scheldt and the North Sea coast. As
shells, has found its painter in Isidore Opsomer. a marine painter he has acquired an unrivalled
He has evoked in brilliant colours the charm of mastership in rendering the moving waves and the
his native city and chosen it sometimes as a setting subtle, ever-changing scenery of clouds and sky.
for biblical subjects, as in his Christ Preaching to For the last ten years he has painted exclusively in
the Poor.
We turn now to Brussels,
which, as the capital and
a centre of high culture,
has attracted many artists
during the last two or three
generations.
Painters and sculptors
from nearly every part of
Belgium have settled
there ; every tendency in
modern art has its repre-
sentatives, and it would be
difficult to discover the
predominating direction.
To the autochthonous
painters of Brussels belong
Andre Cluysenaer, who
first studied sculpture but
afterwards became a skil-
ful portrait-painter; he also
executed a decorative
painting in the Town
Hall of St. Gilles, near
Brussels; M. Wagemans,
also a figure-painter with
a pronounced predilection
for vigorous strokes and
solid colour; and Jean
Van den Eeckhoudt, one
of our most refined
luminists. The last
named passed several "old houses, lierre" by Isidore opsomer
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has also revealed himself as a sculptor of rare winters on the Cdte d'Azur, and was just preparing
merit in a competition for a monument to the a complete exhibition of his work when war broke
Flemish composer, Peter Benoit. His model was out. Besides landscapes, he paints portraits and
awarded the first prize, and was much appreciated still-life pictures.
by Aug. Rodin, but may we hope to see it ever Another Brussels artist, Louis G. Cam bier, has
erected in unfortunate Antwerp ? travelled in the Holy Land, in Turkey, Brittany,
A thoroughly honest and sympathetic artist is Italy, &c. He studied in Paris under Maurice
Edgard Farasyn, working in the surroundings of Denis, whose impulse he followed, and contributed
Antwerp and also on the Flemish coast. His to the renovation of modern religious art. His-
shrimp-fishers on horseback, doing their hard work wife, Mme. Juliette Cambier, is a distinguished
on the sandy shores of the North Sea, are figures painter of flowers.
of high character, leaving a strong impression on Amongst the painters from the southern, i.e., the
every sensitive spectator. . Walloon part of Belgium, we mention Alexandre
Pretty little Lierre, on the Nethe near Antwerp, Marcette, who was born at Spa, and though living
with its old churches, beguinages, and picturesque in Brussels has become fully acclimatised on the
houses, now almost entirely destroyed by German banks of the Scheldt and the North Sea coast. As
shells, has found its painter in Isidore Opsomer. a marine painter he has acquired an unrivalled
He has evoked in brilliant colours the charm of mastership in rendering the moving waves and the
his native city and chosen it sometimes as a setting subtle, ever-changing scenery of clouds and sky.
for biblical subjects, as in his Christ Preaching to For the last ten years he has painted exclusively in
the Poor.
We turn now to Brussels,
which, as the capital and
a centre of high culture,
has attracted many artists
during the last two or three
generations.
Painters and sculptors
from nearly every part of
Belgium have settled
there ; every tendency in
modern art has its repre-
sentatives, and it would be
difficult to discover the
predominating direction.
To the autochthonous
painters of Brussels belong
Andre Cluysenaer, who
first studied sculpture but
afterwards became a skil-
ful portrait-painter; he also
executed a decorative
painting in the Town
Hall of St. Gilles, near
Brussels; M. Wagemans,
also a figure-painter with
a pronounced predilection
for vigorous strokes and
solid colour; and Jean
Van den Eeckhoudt, one
of our most refined
luminists. The last
named passed several "old houses, lierre" by Isidore opsomer
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