Herman-Lucien de Cunsel

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Herman-Lucien de Cunsel (born January 19, 1907 in Brussels , † 1971 in Brussels) was a Belgian painter.

Life

Herman-Lucien de Cunsel's father was Lucien de Cunsel. On his mother's side he came from the Teirlinck family, his mother NN Teirlinck (around 1883–1911) died early, the father then married her sister Marie Marthe Teirlinck. De Cunsel's uncle was the Belgian writer, playwright and cultural politician Herman Louis César Teirlinck (1879–1967), whose daughter was married to Henry van de Velde . His father's family owned the Brussels furniture company Atelier Victor De Cunsel .

De Cunsel was self-taught . He initially devoted himself to "the surrealism of a veristic direction ... later de Cunsel found non-representational forms." He lived in Paris from 1947 to 1959 and in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1960 , numerous trips took him to Berlin, Basel, Morocco and others South America.

His works can be seen in several public collections, e.g. B. the picture “Grande fugue II” (1951) in the Sprengel Museum Hannover

Two well-known private collectors of his works were the Lorca translator and writer Enrique Beck and the author and art collector Thea Sternheim , with whom André Gide introduced him and with whom he was a lifelong friend. De Cunsel was in contact with Klaus Sternheim , Mopsa Sternheim , Klaus Mann and Jean Schlumberger, among others .

He translated the play The Cassette by Carl Sternheim into French; the manuscript is now in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

A selection of exhibitions

At least two major works exhibitions are documented:

  • 1944: Galerie Goemans, Brussels
  • 1966: Retrospective at the Palais des Beaux-Arts , Brussels, with 179 works from September 29 to October 10, 1966
  • further exhibitions and participations in New York and Milan

translation

  • Carl Sternheim: The cassette / La casette: Comédie en cinq actes. Trad. francaise approuvée par l'auteur de Herman de Cunsel. , in: Hélène Temerson, Esprit du temps, 1933, pp. 141–166

literature

  • Herman de Cunsel, exhibition catalog Palais Beaux-Arts Brussels 1966, text by Simone Frigerio
  • Claude Foucart: Autour de Herman de Cunsel (1908–1971), membre d'un “vaste clan”. In: Bulletin des Amis d'André Gide, Vol. 35, No. 154 (2007), Assoc, Paris 2007, pp. 269-278, ISSN  1153-5792
  • Monika Melchert: Farewell at the Adlon. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942476-89-8 , pp. 170, 185.
  • No one dare to say to me: You should! Thea Sternheim and her world. Edited by Thomas Ehrsam and Regula Wyss. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1769-7 , pp. 150, 174, 200, 205.
  • Karin Sagner-Düchting : Cunsel, Herman de . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 23, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22763-9 , p. 123 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thea Sternheim telegraphed him on January 19, 1947 for his 40th birthday according to the diary entry, cf. also: CD of the diaries 1903–1971 , (complete diaries as a database) 1932–1971; ed. by Thomas Ehrsam and Regula Wyss, production: Wallstein verlag GmbH; 1907 is thus verified as the year of birth and not 1908, as sometimes stated elsewhere
  2. ^ Thea Sternheim: Diaries 1903–1971, Vol. 5, 1951–1971. Edited by Thomas Ehrsam and Regula Wyss, 2nd, through. Edition Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0748-3 , p. 204.
  3. ↑ http://www.hcotation.com/p-785-herman-lucien-de-cunsel-1907-1971-.html
  4. ^ Thea Sternheim: Diaries 1903–1971. Volume 5, 1951-1971. Edited by Thomas Ehrsam and Regula Wyss. 2., through Edition Wallstein, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8353-0748-3 , p. 204.
  5. ↑ Fig. In: Nobody dare to tell me: You should! Thea Sternheim and her world. Edited by Thomas Ehrsam and Regula Wyss. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1769-7 , p. 53
  6. ↑ https://www.digibib.net/metasearch/getlist?FORMAT=List&HIGHLIGHTING=TRUE&START=1&COUNT=10&REQID=PHOBOS%3Aa6fc8fe584202c6cd7dd321525caea8c&SID=PHOBOS%3A3bd30a7a90378f81f =============
  7. ↑ Nobody dares to say to me: You should! Thea Sternheim and her world. Edited by Thomas Ehrsam and Regula Wyss. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1769-7 , p. 53
  8. ↑ https://www.worldcat.org/title/herman-de-cunsel/oclc/602484617&referer=brief_results
personal data
SURNAME Cunsel, Herman-Lucien de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Brussels