Émile Deckers (9 January 1885 – 6 February 1968) was a Belgian painter.
Life and career
Émile Deckers was born at Enisval in Belgium on 9 January 1885. He received his art education at the
Académie royale des beaux-arts
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels ( ''(ArBA-EsA)''; ) is an art school in Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1711. Starting from modest beginnings in a single room in Brussels Town Hall, Brussels' Town Hall, it has since 1876 been operat ...
in
Liège
Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Liège Province, province of Liège, Belgium. The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east o ...
. He was the recipient of many art prizes before the outbreak of the first world war.
[Thornton, L., ''La Femme dans la Peinture Orientaliste,'' www.acr-edition.com, 1985, p. 227 (translated from the French)]
In 1921 he moved to
Algiers
Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without having its own separate governing body. With 2,988,145 residents in 2008Census 14 April 2008: Offi ...
,
French Algeria
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, where he became an Orientalist painter.
where he rapidly achieved a high level of popularity for his portraits.
[Thornton, L., ''La Femme dans la Peinture Orientaliste,'' www.acr-edition.com, 1985, p. 227]
Work
He executed many portraits of Algerian women.
His portraits of Arab people are thought to be very authentic.
His work has been auctioned by
Christie's
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and
Sotheby's
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.
See also
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List of Orientalist artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalism#Orientalist art, Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subj ...
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Orientalism
In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of the Middle ...
References
1885 births
1968 deaths
19th-century Belgian painters
Belgian male painters
19th-century Belgian male artists
20th-century Belgian painters
Belgian expatriates in Algeria
Belgian Orientalist painters
Artists from Liège
Artists from Algiers
People from Verviers
20th-century Belgian male artists
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