Gustaaf Wappers
Gustave Wappers | |
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Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp | |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Romanticism |
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 – 6 December 1874) was a Belgian painter. His work is generally considered to be
Biography
He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and during 1826 in Paris. The Romantic movement with its new ideas about art and politics was astir in France. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take advantage of this state of affairs, and his first exhibited painting, "The Devotion of the Burgomaster of Leiden," appeared at the appropriate moment and had great success in the Brussels Salon in 1830, the year of the Belgian Revolution. While political, this remarkable work revolutionized the direction of Flemish painters.[3]
Wappers was invited to the court at Brussels, and was favoured with commissions. In 1832 the city of Antwerp appointed him Professor of Painting.[3]
He exhibited his masterpiece, "Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830" or rather "Episode of the September Days of 1830 on the Grand Place of Brussels", (
His works are numerous. Some of them depict traditional devotional subjects ("Christ Entombed"), while others illustrate the Romantic view of history: "Charles I taking leave of his Children", "Charles IX", "Camoens", "Peter the Great at Saardam", and "Boccaccio at the Court of Joanna of Naples".[3]
Honours
- Titular painter of the King.[4]
- Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: Member of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order.[4]
- Military Order of Christ.[5]
- Belgium: commander of the order of Leopold (Belgium).
- France: officer of the Legion of Honour.[6]
References
- ^ Note: The painter is known by one or by several forenames, in English mainly in their French language versions: Gustave or less frequently in full Egide Charles Gustave – though born in the Flemish city of Antwerp as Egidius Karel Gustaaf Wappers, and internationally also known as such though more often as Gustaaf Wappers. The more rare spelling as 'Gustaf' rather approaches a usual pronunciation in the dialect of Antwerp, and occurs in signatures at the back of paintings. The baronial title he was granted, belongs between forename(s) and surname. See e.g.: www.artfact.com
- ^ "Guide de visite : Episode des journées de septembre 1830 sur la place de l'Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles". Musée d'Art Ancien (Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique): Peinture flamande – Ecoles du Nord: XIXème siècle en Belgique (in French). Insecula, Thailand. Archived from the original on 13 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
- ^ a b c d e public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Wappers, Egide Charles Gustave". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 304. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ a b Almanach royal de Belgique: Classé Et Mis En Ordre Par H. Tarlier
- ^ Almanach royal officiel de Belgique/ De Decq, 1841 p. 122
- ^ "Recherche - Base de données Léonore". www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
Further reading
- P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, pp. 785–787.
- P. & V. Berko, "19th Century European Virtuoso Painters", Knokke 2011, p. 520, illustrations pp. 422–423.
- du Jardin, Jules L'Art flamand.
- Fétis, E. 'Notice sur Gustave Wappers' in Annuaire de l'academie royale de Belgique (1884).
- Hostyn, N., 'Gustaf Wappers' in Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, 18, Brussels, 2007.
- Howe, Jeffery. "19th Century Painting – Gustave Wappers (1807–1874): Belgian Romantic". Boston College, MA, U.S.A. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
- Lemonnier, Camille Histoire des beaux arts en Belgique
- Rooses, Max (1914). Art in Flanders. (republished on web). pp. 301–303, 324. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
- "Le Giaour, étude – Gustave Wappers". Ministry of Culture and Communication, France. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
Gustave Wappers a été sans doute l'un des porte-étendards les plus talentueux du Romantisme en Belgique.
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External links
- Media related to Gustave Wappers at Wikimedia Commons