Constant Montald

Portrait of Madame Montald

Constant Montald (born December 4, 1862 in Ghent , † March 5, 1944 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert / Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe ) was a Belgian painter, sculptor and art teacher.

Constant Montald learned decorative painting in the trade school in Ghent from 1874. In the evening he attended the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Gand. In 1885 he received a first prize and a travel grant from the Academy, which enabled him to study at the Paris Art Academy .

At the Ghent fair in 1886 he exhibited his first large-format work “La lutte humaine” (The human struggle). Thanks to the Belgian Prix de Rome received in 1886, he spent three years from 1888 to 1891 in Italy and Egypt . Interested in Jean Delville's idealistic theories, he exhibited at the first idealistic art fair in 1896.

From 1896 to 1932 he was professor of decorative painting at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and trained the artists of surrealism René Magritte and Paul Delvaux .

In 1906 he took part in the Vienna Secession Exhibition and received a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Milan in 1906 . In 1925 he was represented at the arts and crafts exhibition in Paris . Montald was a founding member of the group "Art Monumental".

literature

• Montald, Constant . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931.
• Berko, Patrick; Berko, Viviane, Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875 ; Brussels: Laconti, 1981,

Web links

Commons : Constant Montald  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Constant Montald. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
• Montald, Constant in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (digitized version )