Léon Frédéric
Léon Frédéric | |
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Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts | |
Known for | Painting, printmaking |
Movement | Symbolism |
Léon-Henri-Marie Frédéric (26 August 1856 – 27 January 1940) was a
Biography
His father was a prosperous jeweler. In 1871, he was apprenticed to the architect and
On his return from Italy, he made his debut at the Brussels Salon, where he came under the influence of Jules Bastien-Lepage, and became a member of the artist group L'Essor. In 1883, he moved to Vresse-sur-Semois, in the Belgian Ardennes, and traveled extensively to England, Germany and the Netherlands. He was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). The young Alexandre Benois was a great admirer of his works and, in 1898, arranged for several to be purchased by Princess Maria Tenisheva, for an exhibition in St. Petersburg.
After his marriage, he moved to his final home in Schaerbeek in 1899, and continued to travel and exhibit his work in international fairs,[3][4] winning awards in the United States and Germany and another gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900).
In 1904, he was appointed a member of the Académie Royale and, in 1929, was created a Baron and a Knight of the Order of Leopold by King Albert I.
His works may be seen at the Museum of Ixelles, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent and the Musée d'Orsay. The Four Seasons is currently on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[5] The Chalks Sellers and The Stream are currently displayed at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels. A street in Schaerbeek has been named after him.
Selected paintings
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The Golden Age (Morning)
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The Source of Life
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The Plowman's Afternoon Tea
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All Things Die, But All Will Be Resurrected through God's Love (center panel)
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Burial of a Farmer
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The chalk sellers - Triptysh - 1882/1883
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The Stream (Le Ruisseau) - Triptysh - 1890-1899
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The Triptych of The Legende Of Saint François - 1882
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The Ages Of Workers - Triptysh - 1895-1897
References
- ^ "Les âges de l'ouvrier [The Ages of the Worker]". Home. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ^ "Dictionnaire des Peintres belges: 2382 FRÉDÉRIC, Léon". balat.kikirpa.be.
- ^ "Léon FRÉDÉRIC". Whitford Fine Art. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
- ^ Universalis, Encyclopædia. "LÉON FRÉDÉRIC".
- ^ "The Four Seasons: Fall". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
Frédérique Thomas-Maurin, Isolde De Buck, Benjamin Foudral (dir.), Léon Frederic (1856-1940), un autre réalisme [exposition, Ornans, Musée Gustave Courbet, 6 juillet-15 octobre 2018], Besançon, Editions du Sekoya, 2018, 181 p. (
Benjamin Foudral, Léon Frederic (1856-1940), « gothique moderne ». Carrière d’un artiste belge dans l’Europe de la fin du XIXe siècle. Essai et Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre [thèse en Histoire de l'art, Sorbonne Université, soutenue le 3 juillet 2019], Paris, 2019.
External links
- Media related to Léon Frédéric at Wikimedia Commons