Jean Delville

Jean Delville painter Symbolist Belgian born in 1867 with Leuwen and deceased in 1953 with Forest-Lez-Brussels.

Biography

He was also poet, writer and theorist of art, raises Jean-François Portaels, he is initially realistic painter and exposes for the first time with Rise in 1885. He publishes his first poems in 1888 (in the review " Wallonia "). He begins his career by making drawings inspired by the operas of Wagner of Parsifal in particular in 1890.

Its work is marked by the esotericism and a certain philosophical idealism and fits clearly in mobility Symbolist. Follower of the Cabal, disciple of Joséphin Péladan, it exposes to the Living rooms of the esthetic Rosicrucian brotherhood as from 1892.

On this date it founds association << For the Art >> which gathers the majority of the Belgian Symbolists. In 1896 it organizes the first Living room of the idealistic Art conceived like a window of the esoteric and mystical tendencies. Between 1900 and 1905 it off teaches with the School Art of Glasgow in Great Britain where its works and its theories are diffused. In 1924, it is named member of the class of the fine arts of the royal Académie of Belgium. Of 1907 with 1937 it teaches with the royal Académie of the Art schools of Brussels and with the Académie of Mons. Platonic convinced, it expresses a belief determined in the fusion of the masculine and female through the absolute love, and conceives Art like a form of religious redemption.

Note: Jean Delville takes as a starting point the esotericism like the Rosicrucian brotherhood, Auguste de Villiers of Isle-Adam, Jules Barbey d' Aurevilly…

Works

  • Tristan and Yseult , Chalk black on paper, 1887 (Royal Museums of the Art schools of Belgium)
  • Self-portrait with old 20 years , 1887
  • the cycle of passions , Chalk black on paper, 1890 (Royal Museums of the Art schools of Belgium)
  • Parsifal , 1890 (private collection)
  • Jellyfish , 1891
  • Portrait of Mrs Stuart Merrill/Mysteriosa , pastel, 1892 (Royal Museums of the Art schools of Belgium)
  • Orphée , 1893 (private collection)
  • the Angel of Splendors , 1894
  • God-Man (God-man, monumental work 5X5m), 1895, Groeninge Museum, Bruges
  • the (French) Treasury of Satan , 1895 (Royal Museums of the Art schools of Belgium)
  • Self-portrait, 1896
  • the School of Plato , 1898, oil on fabric, 260 X 605 cm, Museum of Orsay, Paris.
  • love of the hearts , painting with softening, 1900 (communal Museum of the Art schools d' Ixelles)
  • Prométhée , 1907 (Universit3e libre de Bruxelles)
  • Decoration of the Royal Academy of Brussels, 1911
  • the lapse of memory of passions , (1913)
  • Belgium Indomitable , (1916)
  • Portrait of the woman of the artist , 1916 (Royal Museums of the Art schools of Belgium)
  • the School Of Silence , 1929 (private collection)
  • the Release
  • the Divine comedy of Dante
  • Portrait of large Master of the Rosicrucian brotherhood (Péladan) out of dress of chorus , 1894, oil on fabric, 242 X 112 cm, Nimes, museum of the Art schools.

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