Armand Rassenfosse

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Illustration for Les Promesses d'un visage by Baudelaire
Designed by erotic Rassenfosse bookplate .

Armand Rassenfosse (born August 6, 1862 in Liège ; † January 28, 1934 there ) was a Belgian graphic artist , book illustrator and painter .

Life

Armand Rassenfosse's father was an antique dealer. For the most part in self-study and against the will of his parents, he began to acquire printing techniques himself. He received encouragement from Adrien De Witte , who was a friend of the family. While visiting his uncle in Namur , he saw graphics by Félicien Rops for the first time . During a business trip to Paris for his parents, he met him in 1886. The encounter between Rops and Rassenfosse turned into a long-term friendship and working group. In 1890 he left his parents' company and started working as an artist in a printing company. After his initial success as an illustrator, he took part in the 1913 World Exhibition in Ghent and in 1930 became a member of the Académie royale .

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Keen to experiment and always interested in perfecting his graphic technique, Rops found an open-minded student and helper in Rassenfosse. Together with Rassenfosse, Rops developed a special form of soft ground etching in his last years , which he called "Ropsenfosse". He developed into a recognized graphic artist and illustrator, who of course remained largely dependent on Rops in terms of technology and subject. His main works are the illustrations for Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal , a commission he received through the intermediary of Rops from the chairman of Les Cent Bibliophiles , the Parisian publisher Eugen Rodriguez. The work was published in 1899 in an edition of only 130 copies and is considered a masterpiece of book illustration.

literature

Web links

Commons : Armand Rassenfosse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les Promesses d'un visage by Baudelaire in Les Épaves (1866)
  2. ↑ Eros and Death. Belgian symbolism. Edition Oehrli, 1999, p. 172.
personal data
SURNAME Rassenfosse, Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian graphic artist, book illustrator and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1934
Place of death Liege