Berthe Art

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Berthe Constance Ursule Art (born December 26, 1857 in Brussels , † February 27, 1934 in Saint-Gilles , Brussels) was a Belgian pastel and still life painter .

Life

Berthe Art was born as the daughter of Ferdinand Art and Constance Art, geb. Luc, born in Brussels in 1857. She was fascinated by the pictures in her grandfather's extensive collection of paintings from an early age. The parents supported her passion for the visual arts and looked for a suitable teacher for their daughter among artist friends. She received her training from the landscape painters Marie Collart and François Binjé in Brussels and, at the age of 22, from Alfred Stevens in Paris , who in his atelier on Rue Frochot in the 1880s also taught young women such as Camille Prévost and Alix d'Anethan , Pauline Cuno and Clémence Roth gave lessons. For years she would visit Stevens' studio for three months in winter to perfect her art of painting. Berthe Art specialized in the representation of flowers and still lifes, which she painted in oils and especially with pastel crayons. In addition, she occasionally drew landscapes, often with motifs from the Côte d'Azur . Since the mid-1880s, Berthe Art has regularly participated in Belgian art salons and international exhibitions.

In 1883 she co-founded the artists' association Cercle des femmes peintres with Marie de Bièvre, Louise de Hem, Marguerite Dielman, Marie Heyermans, Alice Ronner , Rosa Venneman, Marguerite Verboeckhoven and Emma Verwee . Berthe Art was one of the organizers of the artist group's exhibitions, in which she participated with her own pictures from 1888 to 1893. In 1899 she joined the Cercle de aquarellistes et pastellistes de Belgique . On the occasion of the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 , she took part in a retrospective of Belgian art. One of her paintings Still Life with Grapes and Partridges was published in Walter Shaw Sparrow's book Women Painters of the World in 1905 .

In 1911 she founded the Lyceum Gallery together with a number of women artists, some of whom she had already worked with at the Cercle des Femmes Peintres . The founding members of this artists' association were Alice and Emma Ronner, Anna Boch , Louise and Marie Danse, Juliette Wytsman and Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe .

In later years Berthe Art taught young artists. One of her students was the still life painter Jeanne Maquet-Tombu (1893–1978). Berthe Art remained unmarried and lived and worked at 28 Rue Blanche in Saint-Gilles in Brussels.

Appreciation and reception

For her achievements she was awarded the Officier de l ' Ordre de la Couronne . In 1906 she was appointed Chevalier (Knight) de l ' Ordre de Léopold . After her death in 1934, the Berthe Art Prize was set up with the help of her bequest , which is awarded to young artists every year by the Belgian Ministry of Education. A portrait of the artist by Ferdinand-Georges Lemmers was published in the book Portraits d'artistes in 1905 . In the Musee des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles , a 1917 portrait of Berthe Resulting Arts is issued by the French painter Roger Parent (1881 to 1986). Berthe's works are currently regularly generating four-digit sales at renowned auctions .

Exhibitions

Berthe Art preferred to exhibit her works in Belgium and neighboring countries from the late 1880s to the First World War . a. in:

  • Salon des Cercle des Femmes Peintres , Brussels 1888: studio accessories and fruits
  • Art Salon, Antwerp 1888: St. John's courtyard
  • Royal Academy , London 1896-1998
  • Art salon of the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire , Ghent 1897
  • World Exhibition in Paris 1900: Geiskraut
  • Art Salon, Paris, 1888–1906
  • Kunstsalon, Brussels 1902: Still life with game and flowers , still life with game and vegetables
  • Künstlerhaus Vienna 1903
  • Salon de Printemps, Brussels 1908: black turkey, chrysanthemums and cabbage
  • Exhibition of Belgian Art, Berlin 1908: Red mullets and Levkojen
  • Glaspalast , Munich, 1908
  • Salon de Printemps, Brussels 1909: White goose, corn and chrysanthemums , black turkeys, cabbage and anemones , duck and fruits

Museums

Today her works are shown particularly in Belgian museums, among others. a .:

Works (selection)

Wheelbarrows with flowers
  • In the painter's studio , oil
  • In the sculptor's studio , pastel
  • La Baigneuse , pastel
  • Still life with cabbage, oranges, lemons and flowers , pastel
  • Still life with cabbage , pastel
  • Autumn bouquet , pastel
  • Red poppy seeds , pastel
  • Mushrooms and lemon , pastel
  • Still life with flowers and samovar , pastel
  • Still life with Buddha , pastel
  • Wisteria and yellow roses in a vase , pastel
  • Still life with azaleas , pastel
  • Still life with yellow roses , pastel
  • Pots with hydrangeas in front of an arbor , pastel
  • Begonias in a spherical vase , pastel
  • Four parrots on their perch , pastel
  • Still life with flowers on a brick wall , pastel
  • Cows on the riverside , pastel
  • Breakfast table , pastel
  • Roses and forget-me-nots on the floor with beetles and butterflies , pastel
  • Brugge , pastel
  • Still life with carnations, large jug and glass bowl , pastel
  • Still life with carnations , pastel
  • Still life with pheasant , pastel
  • Cap Ferrat , pastel
  • The port of Cannes , pastel
  • View of Antibes , pastel

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Everett Fahy & Jayne Wrightsman: The Wrightsman Pictures Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2005, ISBN 9781588391445 , p. 396.
  2. ↑ Berthe Art. In: Dictionaire de peintres belge. Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique, accessed on January 28, 2016 (French).
  3. ^ A b Sander Pierron, Ferdinand Georges Lemmers: Portraits d'artistes . X. Haverman, Brussels 1905, p. 18 .
  4. ↑ a b Eliane Gubin: Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles . ed. racine. Lannoo Uitgeverij, Brussels 2006, ISBN 2-87386-434-6 , pp. 28 .
  5. ^ Walter Shaw Sparrow (ed.): Women Painters of the World. From the time of Caterina Vigri (1413-1463) to Rosa Bonheur and the present day , Hodder & Stoughton, London 1905, p. 276

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personal data
SURNAME Kind, Berthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Art, Berthe Constance Ursule (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian pastel and still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1934
Place of death Saint-Gilles , Brussels