Auguste van Werveke

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Auguste van Werveke

Auguste-Léopold van Werveke (born August 2, 1866 in Luxembourg - Grund , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ; † January 30, 1927 in Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) was a Luxembourgish architect , drawing teacher (professeur de dessin) and painter .

Life

Van Werveke, son of an old Flemish sergeant, younger brother of the historian Nicolas van Werveke and the geologist Leopold van Werveke , father of the journalist Gust van Werveke (1896–1976), went to Düsseldorf in 1884 , where he worked at the Royal Prussian until 1885 Art academy studied painting with Heinrich Lauenstein . Professionally, he worked as an architect and from 1896 to 1920 as a drawing teacher at the École d'artisans de l'État (today Lycée technique des arts et métiers in Luxembourg- Limpertsberg ). As a draftsman he created a number of architectural depictions , as a painter vedute and landscapes , often in watercolor . His buildings include a workers' colony in Steinfort and a primary school in Gréiwemaacher. Van Werveke was one of the founders of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg . Together with Jean Curot (1882–1954) he received the Prix ​​Grand-Duc Adolphe in 1907 . Van Werveke is the namesake of the Fondation Auguste van Werveke-Hanno , which his daughter Anita had in his will , a foundation that awards scholarships to architecture and art students in Luxembourg.

literature

  • Anonymous: Remembrance days: Auguste van Werveke . In: Lëtzebuerger Journal , January 30, 1998, p. 15
  • August van Werveke . In: Association des professeurs d'éducation artistique de l'enseignement secondaire et supérieur (ed.): Regard sur deux siècles de création et d'éducation artistiques au Luxembourg . Imprimerie Saint-Paul, Luxemburg 1987, p. 98 f.
  • van Werveke, Auguste . In: Charles Lang: Le personnel de l'enseignement secondaire et supérieur du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, 1839-1922. Travail statistique de Félix Heuertz (1922), complété par Charles Lang . Publications du Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, Luxembourg 1967, p. 117
  • Pierre Gilbert: La capitale et ses architectes. Illustration critique de l'architecture dans la métamorphose d'une ville en un siècle . Institut grand-ducal, section des arts et des lettres, Imprimerie Saint-Paul, Luxemburg 1986, p. 161

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 442
personal data
SURNAME van Werveke, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES van Werveke, Auguste-Léopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourgish architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg - Grund , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1927
Place of death Luxembourg , Grand Duchy of Luxembourg