Gustave Marissiaux

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Gustave Marissiaux (* 1872 in Marles-sur-Canche , † 1929 in Cagnes-sur-Mer ) was a Belgian photographer whose work is attributed to the pictorialist style.

Gustave Marissiaux, around 1900

life and work

Marissiaux was born in Marles-sur-Canche, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in France. From 1890 he lived in Liège, Belgium . There he ran a photo studio for portraits.

At the turn of the 20th century he made several photo reports about the area around Liège. In these he presented the Liège region primarily through photos taken in foggy weather conditions. In 1903 he was commissioned to take photographs of the coal mines in Wallonia. The recordings made on the basis of this order satisfy both documentary aspects and the requirements of the pictorialistic style of photography. He also became famous for the photographs he took during a trip to Italy in 1905 that took him to Veneto, Tuscany and Umbria. In addition to landscape photographs, his work also includes cityscapes, portraits and nudes. His photographic style is characterized by a pronounced pictorialistic view using stylistic elements of symbolism .

In 1908 he was able to publish a representative selection of his recordings under the title Visions d'artistes .

Marissiaux was a member or founding member of the "Association Belge de la Photography" and the "Société Française de Photographie." He won important prizes at photo exhibitions in Roubaix in 1899 and Turin in 1903.

His photographic work was created between 1895 and 1918. Together with Léonard Misonne , he is considered the most important Belgian art photographer of his time.

Works by Gustave Marissiaux are exhibited in the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi , Belgium.

Picture gallery

  • Coupe de vent, 1901

  • Un canal, 1908

  • Nuite Venitienne, 1905

  • Interior, 1901

  • Jeune fille, 1899

  • Nu, 1911

literature

  • Marc-Emmanuel Mélon: Gustave Marissiaux. La possibilite de l'art. Charleroi, Musée de la Photographie, coll. "Archives du Musée" 1997
  • Marc Vausort: Gustave Marrissiaux (1872-1929). La possibilité de l'art. In: Art & Fact , no. 19, L'art et la ville , Lüttich 2000, pp. 90-91.

Web links

Commons : Gustave Marissiaux  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website luminous-lint about G. Marissiaux, accessed October 24, 2011
  2. ^ Website luminous-lint about G. Marissiaux, accessed October 24, 2011
  3. ^ Website luminous-lint about G. Marissiaux, accessed October 24, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Marissiaux, Gustave
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Marles-sur-Canche
DATE OF DEATH 1929
Place of death Cagnes-sur-Mer