Charles de Groux

Charles de Groux , Portrait by Auguste Danse (1829–1929), 1871

Charles Corneille Auguste de Groux , also spelled Degroux (born August 25, 1825 in Comines , French Flanders , † March 30, 1870 in Sint-Joost-ten-Node , Belgium ), was a Belgian painter and illustrator .

Life

De Groux was born as the son of Jean Baptiste Joseph de Groux (1794–1846) and his wife Marie Constance Sophie, b. Vandewynckele (1794-1862), born. The couple had eight sons and three daughters. In 1849 de Groux married Jeanne Geyssens (1824-1887), who bore him three sons and two daughters, among them the later painter Henry de Groux . After initial training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels with François-Joseph Navez and Jean-Baptiste van Eycken, Charles de Groux took private lessons in Düsseldorf in 1851/1852 . There he was influenced by the tendency painting of socially critical painters. His picture The Drunkard shows the influences of Ludwig Knaus ' Die Faschplayers , his picture Die Armenbank shows parallels to Wilhelm Joseph Heine's service in the prison church .

Works (selection)

The Drunkard , 1853

The Gleaners , 1856/1857

While de Groux based his painting style on the group of the Vlaamsen Primitieven , he received impetus from the socially critical representatives of the Düsseldorf School on the subject of pauperism . As a “poor people painter” he is one of the founders of Belgian realism and socialist realism .

The Drunkard , 1853
The poor bank , 1854
The Gleaners , 1856/1857
Le Bénédicté , 1861
The separation , 1869
L'Ivronge , 1870

literature

Hans Vollmer : Groux, Charles Corneille Auguste de . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 114 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Sander Pierron: Charles de Groux. Brussels 1922.
David Ethan Stark: Charles de Groux and Social Realism in Belgian Painting 1848–1875. Dissertation, Ohio State University, 1979.

Web links

Commons : Charles de Groux - collection of images, videos and audio files

Charles de Groux , on the artnet.com portal

Individual evidence

^ Charles Corneille Auguste de Groux , data sheet in the portal gw.genanet.org , accessed on July 27, 2015.
↑ 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. 429.
↑ Wolfgang Cortjaens: Between institutionalization and individual exchange. German-Belgian cultural transfer using the example of the Düsseldorf School of Painting from 1831 to 1865 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 165.

personal data
SURNAME	De Groux, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	De Groux, Charles Corneille Auguste (full name); Groux, Charles Degroux
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH	Comines , French Flanders
DATE OF DEATH	March 30, 1870
Place of death	Sint-Joost-ten-Node , Belgium

[1] Charles Corneille Auguste de Groux , data sheet in the portal gw.genanet.org , accessed on July 27, 2015.

[2] 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. 429.

[3] Wolfgang Cortjaens: Between institutionalization and individual exchange. German-Belgian cultural transfer using the example of the Düsseldorf School of Painting from 1831 to 1865 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Ed.), Volume 1, p. 165.