Edouard de Bièfve

Edouard de Bièfve, self-portrait around 1836

Le Compromis des Nobles en 1566

Jean François Edouard de Bièfve (born December 14, 1808 in Brussels ; † February 7, 1882 there ) was a Belgian history and portrait painter .

Life

Born into a wealthy Brussels family, Edouard de Bièfve studied at the Brussels Academy of Paintings with the history painter Joseph Paelinck from 1825 to 1830 , went to Paris in 1831 and turned to the Romantics there. Until 1841 he trained first in the studio of the sculptor David d'Angers and then with the history painter Paul Delaroche . In those years he sent his history paintings to exhibitions in Paris, but also in Antwerp , Ghent and Brussels. The government of the new Belgian state , independent of the Netherlands , became aware of Edouard de Bièfve's romantic pictures and commissioned him with a work on the Dutch uprising against Spanish rule that appealed to the Belgian national feeling . In 1841 the artist returned to Brussels and exhibited in Ghent the painting Signing of the Compromise of the Nobles of Burgundy on February 16, 1566 against the introduction of the Inquisition (French: Le Compromis des nobles en 1566 ), painted for the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels . out. The picture was not only well received in Belgium. For example, on a tour through Germany in 1842 and 1843, the artist in the art associations of some cities received special attention for this, his main work. Even more - Edouard de Bièfve stimulated internal German discussions about German history painting with his masterpiece.

De Bièfve bequeathed all of his paintings and property to the Belgian state. He found his final resting place in the Laeken cemetery.

Honors and memberships

Gold medal of the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent
Order of Leopold (Belgium)
Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria-Kurköln)
Red Eagle Order 3rd Class (Prussia)
1843 full member of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , Berlin, Section for the Fine Arts
1845 court painter to the Belgian Queen Louise d'Orléans

reception

Andrea Meyer writes about the fierce controversy that the picture Le Compromis des nobles en 1566 had triggered in Germany: While Ernst Förster rated the Belgian work of art negatively in the Kunstblatt , Franz Kugler praised the picture.
Peter Stapf describes the inclusion of the above-mentioned picture Le Compromis des nobles en 1566 in pre-revolutionary Germany and addresses the flaring up German dispute over the Nazarene style of Cornelius in the works of Wilhelm von Kaulbach and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld .

literature

Bièfve, Edouard de . In: Arvid Ahnfelt (Hrsg.): Europe's constituent: alfabetiskt ordade biografier öfver vårt århundrades förnämsta artister . Oskar L. Lamms Förlag, Stockholm 1887, p. 38 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Bièfve, Edouard de. In Meyer's Konversations-Lexikon. Fourth edition, Volume 2, 1888, p. 900 ( peter-hug.ch ).
Georg Nordensvan : Bièfve, Edouard de . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 3 : Bergsvalan – Branstad . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1905, Sp. 320 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Bièfve, Edouard de. In Meyer's Großes Konversations-Lexikon. 6th edition, 1905-08, Volume 2, Col. 832 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Henri Hymans : Bièfve, Edouard de . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 4 : Bida – Brevoort . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, p. 7 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Judith Ogonovszky-Steffens: Edouard de Bièfve (1808-1882). Une étoile au sein de l'art officiel belge. In: Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art. 71, 2002, pp. 59-88.

Web links

Commons : Edouard de Bièfve - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

^ Biography from the register of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

↑ Andrea Meyer in Michel Espagne , Bénédicte Savoy , Celine Trautmann-Waller (ed.): Franz Theodor Kugler. German art historian and Berlin poet. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004645-7 , pp. 159–160; s. Franz Kugler: Letter to Dr. Ernst Förster in Munich about the two pictures by Gallait and de Biefve . In: ders., Small writings and studies on art history , Vol. 3, Stuttgart 1854, pp. 401–407.

↑ Peter Stapf: The painter Max Thedy (1858-1924). Life and work. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22264-2 , pp. 48–49.

personal data
SURNAME	Bièfve, Edouard de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bièfve, Jean François Edouard de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brussels
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1882
Place of death	Brussels

[1] Biography from the register of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

[2] Andrea Meyer in Michel Espagne , Bénédicte Savoy , Celine Trautmann-Waller (ed.): Franz Theodor Kugler. German art historian and Berlin poet. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-05-004645-7 , pp. 159–160; s. Franz Kugler: Letter to Dr. Ernst Förster in Munich about the two pictures by Gallait and de Biefve . In: ders., Small writings and studies on art history , Vol. 3, Stuttgart 1854, pp. 401–407.

[3] Peter Stapf: The painter Max Thedy (1858-1924). Life and work. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22264-2 , pp. 48–49.