George Minne

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Mourning mother with two children (De Smart) , 1888, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam
Fountain with a figure of George Minne in the garden of the house of van de Velde in Weimar

Baron George Minne (born August 30, 1866 in Ghent , † February 20, 1941 in Sint-Martens-Latem ) was a Flemish painter , draftsman and sculptor .

Life

From 1880 Minne was initially an architecture student and a pupil of Jean Delvin at the Academy of Ghent. From 1883 to 1886 he studied painting with Théodore Channeel and sculpture with Louis Van Biesbroek. He was friends with the author, writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature Maurice Maeterlinck , whose works he illustrated ( Serres , 1886 and Soeur Béatrice , 1900).

Minne was often a guest of Henry van de Velde . When Minne himself destroyed his sculpture 'Fraternité' (brotherhood), a memorial to the socialist Jan Volders , van de Velde witnessed it.

In 1890 he exhibited some of his works in connection with the Belgian artist group Les XX , who u. a. the painters James Ensor and Fernand Khnopff belonged. In 1891 he became a member of this group of artists. In the same year George Minne went to Paris to become a student of Auguste Rodin , but he was turned away.

From 1895 to 1896 he attended a course with Charles van der Stappen at the Brussels Academy . In 1889 he moved to Sint-Martens-Latem to found his own artists' colony , the Latemse School , similar to the German Worpswede , with the painters Albinus Van den Abeele, Valerius De Saedeleer, Albert Servaes and Gustaaf Van de Woestijne . The painting style was strongly based on symbolism .

In 1912 he lectured briefly at the Ghent Academy and fled to Wales with his wife after the outbreak of the First World War . After the end of the war he resumed teaching. In 1931 he was honored with the title of baron .

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Minne's main work is in sculptures shaped by mystical symbolism and Pre-Raphaelism : mostly kneeling bronze figures, for example a grieving mother with two children , depicting restrained pain or tenderness. The Folkwang Museum in Essen is showing La fontaine aux agenouillés (fountain with kneeling boys, 1905/1906) in its permanent exhibition .

literature

  • Robert Hoozee (inlet): George Minne en de kunst rond 1900. Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, 18 September to 5 December 1982 , Ghent 1982
  • Inga Rossi-Schrimpf: George Minne. The early work and its reception in Germany and Austria up to the First World War . VDG, Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-89739-735-4
  • Bettina Berg (Ed.): George Minne - A Beginning of Modernity. Exhib. Cat.Gerhard Marcks Foundation, Wienand, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-86832-190-6

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry van de Velde: Monument to the socialist Jan Volders pp. 120-121. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hello, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter, draftsman and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1941
Place of death Sint-Martens-Latem