DOI Heft:
No. 166 (May 1915)
DOI Artikel:Buschmann, P.: Belgian artists in England, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0273
Belgian Artists in England
“CANAL BN FLANDRE”
BY VICTOR GII.SOUL
late Henritte Ronner, so well-known as a painter
of cats, has for many years ranked amongst
the very first painters of still-life, and one might
have expected that she would simply continue in
the manner which brought her so much well-
deserved success. But all at once she decided
to make a change, and proved to have the courage
as well as the power to alter her style. She
exhibited only two small works, in the nature of
studies : Roses and le Plateau de laque, sufficient
however to show her new conception, tending
to extreme simplification both of harmony and
technique; composed on a scale of two or three
tints only, the effect is obtained by a few broad,
bold touches, rendering the very structure of things
before the artist’s sensible eye.
Several artists exhibited. works painted during
their exile on British soil — Charles Mertens
some landscape-sketches and an English interior,
The Hall; Jean Delville several well-studied
portraits ; Pierre Paulus some London views, in
which he proved himself a sensible interpreter of
the special atmosphere of the Thames. Amongst
other noteworthy refugee painters represented at
Burlington House wrere Maurice Blieck, Alb. Claes,
Andre Cluysenaer, Emile Fabry, M. Wagemans.
The committee also succeeded in obtaining
some works from artists residing abroad. Thus
Victor Gilsoul, who is now living in Holland and
is one of the most vigorous Flemish landscape
painters, contributed a view of the Bruges Canal., a
very good version of one of his favourite themes.
Comte Jacques de Lalaing, already mentioned
amongst the sculptors, is also an eminent portrait-
painter ; his lively Portrait of the Comtesse de
Lalaing was certainly one of the most brilliant
pictures of the exhibition. Fernand Khnopff, well
known to the readers of The Studio, showed his
Encens, an idealised figure of high distinction
revealing the artist’s noble inspirations and his
unrivalled skill in rendering precious materials.
Alfred Verhaeren, the painter of still-life, had
only one small work: Le Tapis rouge; Auguste
Donnay, one of the leaders amongst the Walloon
artists, contributed several little landscapes from
the Meuse valley, executed in his particular tapestry-
like style.
The series of black-and-white works included
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“CANAL BN FLANDRE”
BY VICTOR GII.SOUL
late Henritte Ronner, so well-known as a painter
of cats, has for many years ranked amongst
the very first painters of still-life, and one might
have expected that she would simply continue in
the manner which brought her so much well-
deserved success. But all at once she decided
to make a change, and proved to have the courage
as well as the power to alter her style. She
exhibited only two small works, in the nature of
studies : Roses and le Plateau de laque, sufficient
however to show her new conception, tending
to extreme simplification both of harmony and
technique; composed on a scale of two or three
tints only, the effect is obtained by a few broad,
bold touches, rendering the very structure of things
before the artist’s sensible eye.
Several artists exhibited. works painted during
their exile on British soil — Charles Mertens
some landscape-sketches and an English interior,
The Hall; Jean Delville several well-studied
portraits ; Pierre Paulus some London views, in
which he proved himself a sensible interpreter of
the special atmosphere of the Thames. Amongst
other noteworthy refugee painters represented at
Burlington House wrere Maurice Blieck, Alb. Claes,
Andre Cluysenaer, Emile Fabry, M. Wagemans.
The committee also succeeded in obtaining
some works from artists residing abroad. Thus
Victor Gilsoul, who is now living in Holland and
is one of the most vigorous Flemish landscape
painters, contributed a view of the Bruges Canal., a
very good version of one of his favourite themes.
Comte Jacques de Lalaing, already mentioned
amongst the sculptors, is also an eminent portrait-
painter ; his lively Portrait of the Comtesse de
Lalaing was certainly one of the most brilliant
pictures of the exhibition. Fernand Khnopff, well
known to the readers of The Studio, showed his
Encens, an idealised figure of high distinction
revealing the artist’s noble inspirations and his
unrivalled skill in rendering precious materials.
Alfred Verhaeren, the painter of still-life, had
only one small work: Le Tapis rouge; Auguste
Donnay, one of the leaders amongst the Walloon
artists, contributed several little landscapes from
the Meuse valley, executed in his particular tapestry-
like style.
The series of black-and-white works included
267