Jean LED Court

Jean LED Court (Hamoir 1631 - Liege 1707) is a Sculpteur current Baroque. It is known as being that which introduced this style into the principality of Liege and is regarded as most famous representing of this style in Wallonia.

It was born has at the time Hamoir in the principality of Stavelot-Malmédy. It remained nearly 10 years in Italy or it became raises of Bernin. On its return, about 1660, it will settle definitively with Liege, street Sœurs of Hasque, place where it died in 1707.

It is well-known of the Inhabitants of Li2ege for:

  • the Virgin of Vinâve d' Ile
  • three Graces surmounting the Perron.
  • marble Christ died of the Cathedral Saint-Paul

It is estimated that, like Bernin, it succeeded in releasing the sculpture of the architecture which “ testified formerly to a certain tender with respect to. Works did not manage to make forget the block from which they were extracted. Bernin releases them from gravity and creates forms which leave the original matter, become animated, is raised and planes between sky and ground (...) LED Court does not copy Bernin, it does not imitate it in a servile way but it assimilates it, it adapts to its temperament and its taste what it includes/understands better and better ”.

Anne Geersten, Professor at the Institute of higher learning of the Art schools Saint-Luc of Liege estimates: “ the art of Jean LED Court fully illustrates the modernism of its time. Mystical dash, passion, love, sensuality, all the expensive topics at the time baroque, it translated them with force, dynamism and nobility, but also a certain reserve. Jean LED Court yielded forever to the emphases of the baroquism: no unslung distorsions, anatomical excesses nor of ostentatious expressions. It knew, to some extent, to keep a right measure to the impassioned expression of the feelings. ”

Jean LED Court is the brother of Jean-Gilles Delcour painter inhabitant of Li2ege, raises Bertholet Flemalle, following the example Gerard de Lairesse.

More

At the time of the 300e birthday of its death an exposure is devoted to him (until February 3rd, 2008) to the church Saint Barthelemy to Liege. http://www.expodelcour.be

A new monograph devoted to Jean LED Court has just been published in the Editions Root by the historian of art Michel Lefftz.

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