Jules Lismonde

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The painter Jules Lismonde, 1944, drawn by Léon van Dievoet
The Villa Lismonde in Linkebeek called "Les Roches", painting by Léon van Dievoet, 1959.

Jules-Clément Lismonde , usually only signed with Lismonde (born May 14, 1908 in Brussels , Belgium, † March 12, 2001 in Linkebeek ) was a Belgian painter , graphic artist and draftsman .

life and work

Jules Lismonde studied art at the academies in Brussels and Saint-Josse-ten-Noode . As a representative of abstract painting , he worked as a draftsman, engraver and painter, as an illustrator and designer of packaging and cardboard boxes and as a designer of tapestries . Around 1930 he learned and drew for some time with Louis Apol (1850–1936). In 1934 he drew industrial plants and created many portrait drawings from 1937 to 1952. After a period of painterly constructivism , he began to paint abstractly from 1959.

He had artistic exchanges with Paul Wunderlich and Piet Clément in Paris. He exhibited with La Jeune Peinture Belge in 1946 and 1947 . In 1950 he had an exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam . In 1954 he toured Rome and made numerous lithographs . In 1958 Lismonde received the 5th Venice Biennale Prize and in 1959 the São Paulo Biennale Prize . In 1963 he was a founding member of the Cap d'Tinte artist group . In 1964, his works were shown at the documenta III in Kassel in the famous hand drawings department .

Important retrospectives of his art took place in Brussels in 1977 and 1992. He was a member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique .

In 1998 the Maison Lismonde Foundation was set up in Linkebeek .

Literature and Sources

  • documenta III. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: Painting and Sculpture; Volume 2: Hand Drawings; Volume 3: Industrial Design, Graphics; Kassel / Cologne 1964
  • Lismonde . Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles; Ed. Snoeck, Gand 2008, ISBN 978-90-5349-721-0 (Brussels exhibition, October 7, 2008 to January 25, 2009)

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personal data
SURNAME Lismonde, Jules
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lismonde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter, printmaker and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2001
Place of death Linkebeek