Eugène Joors

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Eugène Joors

Eugène Joors also Eugeen Joors (born February 20, 1850 in Borgerhout , Antwerp , † October 23, 1910 in Berchem , Antwerp) was an academic Belgian still life painter .

Life

Eugène Joors initially spent two years as an apprentice with an engraver named Michiels. From 1865 to 1870 he studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp under Polydore Beaufaux (1829–1905) in the drawing class and then under Nicaise de Keyser and Joseph van Lerius . From 1879 he regularly presented his works at the Antwerp Salon and from the 1890s also at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in the Munich Glass Palace . In 1886 he became a professor at the Antwerp Academy for still life painting, which he led together with Frans Mortelmans . Joors won a gold medal in Munich in 1889 and a second medal in Antwerp in 1894. He was involved in Charles Verlat's monumental panorama of the Battle of Waterloo . In 1910 he took part in the world exhibition in Brussels.

Eugène Joors became known both for his realistic, carefully arranged pompous still lifes and flower still lifes with a natural variety of flowers, as well as for a multitude of animal pictures, landscapes, portraits and genre scenes. He was made a knight of the Order of Leopold and a street in the Antwerp Borgerhout district was named after the artist. His students included the Hamburg still life painters Helene and Molly Cramer .

Works (selection)

  • Girl with Cherries (1879)

  • Still life with a palette (1890)

  • Still life with pears and chestnuts (1885)

  • The Reward
    (1886)

  • Lady with a Parrot
    (ca.1890)

literature

  • Joors, Eugène. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/2, sheets 31–61: Heideck – Mayer, Louis. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1895, p. 621 ( archive.org ).
  • Joors, Eugène. In: HA Müller , HW Singer : General Artist Lexicon. Volume 2, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / M. 1921 ( archive.org ).
  • Joors, Eugène. In: Dictionnaire des peintres belges. (French digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Eugène Joors  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Joors: Lobster. In: Catalog, Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1900 , plate 133
  2. ↑ No. 439: Joors, Eugène, Antwerp. Preparations for punch. In: Illustrated catalog of the Munich annual exhibition of works of art from all nations in the royal. Glaspalaste 1889 , page 45
personal data
SURNAME Joors, Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joors, Eugeen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Borgerhout , Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1910
Place of death Berchem , Antwerp