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Ernest Blanc-Garin
Ernest Blanc-Garin or Ernest-Stanislas Blanc-Garin (8 October 1843 – 1916) was a French painter. Blanc-Garin was born in Givet on 8 October 1843. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (french: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - École supérieure des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles (ARBA-ESA), nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel), is an art school established in Br ... in Brussels. He trained many student in his workshop in Brussels. Blanc-Garin died in Brussels in 1916. Blanc-Garin's students Blanc-Garin's students include: Gallery Ernest Blanc-Garin Portrait of a young Chinese woman.jpg, ''Portrait of a young Chinese woman'' References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blanc-Garin, Ernest 1843 births 1916 deaths People from Givet 19th-century French painters 20th-century French painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Givet
Givet () (german: Gibet Walloon: ''Djivet'') is a commune in the Ardennes department in northern France surrounded on three sides by the Belgian border. It lies on the river Meuse where Emperor Charles V built the fortress of Charlemont. It borders the French municipalities of Fromelennes to the east and Rancennes to the south and Foisches to the southeast. Later on, another building was added to the fort, the Caserne Rougé, the longest barracks of France at that time, named after Pierre François, Marquis de Rougé, general of the French armies k.a. 1761. The Pointe de Givet National Nature Reserve is partly located on the commune. History The town's history claims that Saint Hubert lived there in 720 and performed a miracle. The town has changed hands several times since the Roman era before becoming part of France in 1678, and was later invaded by Russians and Germans. During the Napoleonic Wars, the French maintained a camp here for British naval prisoners of wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the Flemish Region (within which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated region in Belgium, and although it has the highest GDP per capita, it has the lowest available income per household. The Brussels Region covers , a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of over 1.2 million. The five times larger metropolitan area of Brussel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Académie Royale Des Beaux-Arts
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (french: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - École supérieure des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles (ARBA-ESA), nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel), is an art school established in Brussels, Belgium. It was founded in 1711. Starting from modest beginnings in a single room in Brussels' Town Hall, it has since 1876 been operating from a former convent and orphanage in the /, which was converted by the architect . The school has played an important role in training important local artists. History Origins Historically, artistic training in Brussels was organised in traditional workshops where masters would teach their skills to pupils. The masters needed to be registered with their local guild to be able to practice their craft. On 30 September 1711, the magistrate of the City of Brussels gave the guilds of painters, sculptors, weavers and other amateurs the use of a room in Brussels' Town Hall to teach drawing clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Heijermans
Marie Heijermans or Marie de Roode-Heijermans (1859-1937) was a Dutch painter. Biography Heijermans was born on 14 October 1859 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Among her ten siblings were educator Ida Heijermans, writer Herman Heijermans and community physician Louis Heiermans. She studied at the ''Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten'' ( Royal Academy of Art, The Hague) and Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Academy of Visual Arts, Rotterdam. One of her teachers was Jan Philip Koelman. She also studied with included Ernest Blanc-Garin in Brussels. She was a member of Cercle des Femmes Peintres, a society for women artists. Sal Meijer was a pupil of hers. While in Brussels Heijermans achieved success at the Paris Salon. She subsequently painted ''Victime de la misère'' depicting a nude woman, a clothed man, and chair with a bank note placed on it. The image was censored by the Belgian king and removed from an exhibition. The scandal resulted in the premature ending of her t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Kernkamp
Anna "Anny" Kernkamp (18 June 1868 – 9 February 1947) was a Belgian artist. Biography Anna was born on 18 June 1868 in Antwerp as Anna Catharina Schenck. There she studied with the painter Henri Rul. She went on to study with Ernest Blanc-Garin in Brussels. In 1887 she married Johann Heinrich (Henri) Kernkamp, from Edam, Netherlands. She started painting after the wedding and thus signed her work "Anny Kernkamp". As a result of her painting Anna suffered from an eye disease, which forced her to stop painting around 1913. She died on 9 February 1947 in Brasschaat. Work Anna Kernkamp painted still lifes and landscapes in an Impressionistic style. She was a member of the Mechelen artist association "De Distel". She described her work as "open air impressionism". During her life, Anna exhibited several times, a.o. in Liège Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Koster
Jo Koster (1868-1944) was a Dutch Neo-Impressionist and Pointillist painter. Biography Koster was born on 16 April 1868 in Kampen, Netherlands. She was the third of eight children. Her early education from 1881 through 1885 was in Dordrecht where she excelled in art and music. In 1885 she moved to Amsterdam where she attended the ''Rijksnormaalschool voor Tekenonderwijs'' (National Normal School for Drawing Teachers). In 1888 she moved to Rotterdam where she attended the ''Tekenacademie'' (Drawing Academy). In 1891 she exhibited in her first group show. In 1894 Koster received a fellowship to study in Brussels and Paris. In Paris she studied at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi. She spent several years at Ernest Blanc-Garin's workshop in Brussels. There she became acquainted with the work of artists involved with '' Les XX'' and ''La Libre Esthétique''. During this period Koster began painting portraits which would become a source of income for her. Kost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frans Oerder
Frans David Oerder (7 April 1867 – 15 July 1944) was a Dutch-born South African landscape, still-life and portrait painter, etcher, and lithographer. He was born in Rotterdam. Frans was the youngest of seven children born to a municipal employee, Johannes Carolus Oerder. His father felt that art as a career was foolish, but agreed to his training as a decorator. From 1880 to 1885, Oerder studied art at the Rotterdam Academy, winning the ''King William III Gold Medal and Bursary'', later touring in Italy and studying in Brussels under Ernest Blanc-Garin (1843–1916) with the help of a small inheritance from his father. Following his brother, he emigrated to South Africa in 1890, and initially worked as house painter and decorator for the firm of De Wyn & Engelenburg. Pressed by a shortage of work he entered the employ of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg Maatschappij and painted poles along the Delagoa Bay railway line. In the 1890s, Oerder was, along with Anton van Wouw and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Raemaekers
Louis Raemaekers (April 6, 1869 – July 26, 1956) was a Dutch painter and editorial cartoonist for the Amsterdam newspaper ''De Telegraaf'' during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. Early life He was born and grew up in Roermond, Netherlands during a period of political and social unrest in the city, which at that time formed the battleground between Catholic clericalism and liberalism. Louis’ father published a weekly journal called ''De Volksvriend'' (Friend of the People) and was an influential man in liberal circles. His battle against the establishment set the tone for his son's standpoint several decades later, when he fought against the occupation of neutral Belgium at the start of the First World War. His mother was of German descent. He was trained – and later working – as a drawing teacher and made landscapes and children's books covers and illustrations in his free time. In 1906 his life took a decisive turn when he accepted the invitation to draw p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adya Van Rees-Dutilh
Adrienne (Adya) van Rees-Dutilh (1876-1959) was a Dutch textile artist, painter and graphic artist. She was part of the Dada movement in Zurich and was one of the early signatories of the first Berlin Dada manifesto. Biography Rees-Dutilh née Dutilh was born on 7 June 1876 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She studied drawing with Barbara Elisabeth van Houten in The Hague and went on to study with Ernest Blanc-Garin at his workshop in Brussels. In 1909 she married fellow artist Otto van Rees with whom she had three children. The couple lived the Montmartre area of Paris along with a group of artist known as Bateau-Lavoir. Around this time Rees-Dutilh began focusing on creating abstract tapestries and embroidery. Rees-Dutilh converted to Catholicism in 1914 and religion became a subject of her later art. She moved to Switzerland during World War I. In November 1915 she and Otto participated in a Dada group exhibition at the ''Galerie Tanner'' in Zurich. Adya exhibited her embroidery. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Verboeckhoven
Marguerite Verboeckhoven (14 July 1865 – 8 August 1949) was a Belgian painter known for her seascapes. Life Verboeckhoven was born in Schaerbeek in 1865. She was the daughter of the publisher Louis-Hippolyte Verboeckhoven and Rosalie-Françoise Pierard, and the granddaughter of the animal painter Eugène Verboeckhoven and great-granddaughter of the sculptor Barthélémy Verboeckhoven. She was educated in a wealthy and cultural environment. She received her artistic education at Ernest Blanc-Garin, who had specially opened a workshop for women and girls. Afterwards she became a teacher at the Ernest Blanc-Garin's workshop. She met artists such as Edwin Ganz, Lucien Wollès and Henri Evenepoel there . She specialised in trying to capture the subtle variations of colour seen at the sea shore. Like many artists including Ernest Blanc-Garin, she lived in Knocke in the 1880s and 1890s. In 1888, she was co-founder of the '' Cercle des Femmes Peintres'' in Brussels. Other members we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Vos
Hubert Vos (February 15, 1855 – January 8, 1935) was a Dutch painter who was born Josephus Hubertus Vos in Maastricht. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and with Fernand Cormon in Paris. He exhibited widely in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dresden and Munich. From 1885 to 1892, he worked in England, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1888 and 1891. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Career His second wife was Eleanor Kaikilani Coney, of Hawaiian, Chinese, and American descent. In 1898, he visited Hawaii, where he painted the local people. In that same year, Vos traveled to Korea, where he completed at least three paintings in duplicate. In each case, he left one copy in Korea and kept one copy. The paintings are a life-sized portrait of Emperor Gojong, a portrait of Min Sangho (1870–1933), and a landscape of Seoul. The copies left in Korea hung in the Deoksugung Palace until all except the landscape of Seoul, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1843 Births
Events January–March * January ** Serial publication of Charles Dickens's novel '' Martin Chuzzlewit'' begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States. ** Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is published in a Boston magazine. ** The Quaker magazine '' The Friend'' is first published in London. * January 3 – The '' Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms'' (海國圖志, ''Hǎiguó Túzhì'') compiled by Wei Yuan and others, the first significant Chinese work on the West, is published in China. * January 6 – Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross discovers Snow Hill Island. * January 20 – Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão, Marquis of Paraná, becomes ''de facto'' first prime minister of the Empire of Brazil. * February – Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa captures the fort and town of Riffa after the rival branch of the family fails to gain control of the Riffa Fort and flees to Manama. Shaikh Mohamed bin Ahmed is ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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