Henri Privat-Livemont
Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont (1861–1936) was a Belgian
Symbolist painter and Art Nouveau decorator who sometimes worked under the name T. Privat-Livemont.[1]
Life
Livemont was born in
Paris Salon
in 1886 and 1887.
On 23 July 1889 he married Madeleine Brown, and shortly after marriage returned to Schaarbeek to work as a painter and interior designer, establishing his own studio in 1890. During this period he also produced a number of portraits. From 1891 he was also a professor of drawing and ornamental design at the industrial design school in Schaarbeek, teaching alongside
First World War he produced a series of caricatures of German occupiers.[2] He retired from teaching in 1934, and died on 4 October 1936.[2]
Exhibitions
From March 2023 to January 2024, an exhibition of Livemont's posters was held at the Autrique House in Brussels.[5]
See also
References
- ^ The name Henri Privat-Livemont is unattested before a Sotheby's catalogue in 1991 listed one of his works under that name, but became widely used online, and increasingly in print, after the Wikipedia page was changed to that title in 2008.
- ^ Nouvelle Biographie Nationale, vol. 10 (Brussels, 2010), 277-281.
- ^ "Livemont, Privat", in Francine-Claire Legrand, Symbolism in Belgium(Laconti, 1972), p. 264
- ^ "Studio Talk", The International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, vol. 1 (New York, 1897), p. 258.
- ^ Pascal Goffaux (10 March 2023). "Privat Livemont. Fleurs à l'affiche, à la Maison Autrique". RTBF.
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