Alice Ronner

Alice Emma Henriëtte Ronner (born September 9, 1857 in Brussels ; died July 4, 1957 in Ixelles / Elsene ) was a Belgian painter .

Life

Alice Ronner came from a family of artists. Her grandfather Josephus-Augustus Knip (1777–1847) already practiced the profession of painter. Her mother Henriëtte Ronner-Knip also worked as a painter. She is best known for her paintings with animal motifs - mostly cats and dogs. Her marriage to Feico Ronner had six children. She gave her daughter Alice painting lessons from the age of 14. Her siblings Alfred Ronner (1852–1901) and Emma Ronner (1860–1936) also learned to paint.

Ronner had a lot of freedom during her mother's apprenticeship and mainly worked according to nature. Her work mostly includes still lifes with flowers, vases, pewter jugs and porcelain in the style of realism . In 1898 both artists exhibited their works together in Rotterdam . Both were members of the association of Belgian women artists Cercle des femmes peintres and exhibited in their salons. In addition, Alice Ronner regularly showed her works in the annual salons of Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp . In addition, her works were shown at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 and the Berlin Secession in 1908. In 1911 she founded the Lyceum gallery with other artists in Brussels . This included her sister Emma Ronner and the painters Anna Boch , Louise Danse , Marie Danse , Juliette Wytsman , Berthe Art and Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe .

During the First World War , Ronner fled to Great Britain. There were exhibitions of modern art from Belgium in Cardiff in 1915 and in Folkestone in 1916 . Alice Ronner exhibited alongside well-known artists such as James Ensor and Fernand Khnopff . After the war she returned to Brussels. She remained unmarried all her life and had no children. Alice Ronner died at the age of 99 in Ixelles / Elsene.

Works in public collections (selection)

• De kalkoen - Royal Museums of Fine Arts , Brussels
• De papavers - Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
• De tinnen kruik - Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels
• Louis-Philippe Hall - Groeningemuseum , Bruges
• Rhododendrons - Museum voor Schone Kunsten , Ghent
• Harp met bloemen - Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen en Baron Caroly , Lier
• Vaas met bloemen - Museum van het OCMW (Openbaar Centrum voor Maatschappelijk Welzijn), Brussels
• De advised zetel - Musée d'Orsay , Paris

literature

• Albert Plasschaert : XIXde eeuwsche Hollandsche schilderkunst . Maatschappij voor Goede en Goedkoope Lectuur, Amsterdam 1909, p. 313.
• Albert Plasschaert: Korte divorced from Hollandsche schilderkunst van af de Haagsche school tot op den tegenwoordigen tijd . Maatschappij voor Goede en Goedkoope Lectuur, Amsterdam 1923, p. 298
• Paul Piron: De belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw . Art in Belgium, Brussels 1999, ISBN 90-76676-01-1 .