Marcel-Louis Baugniet

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Marcel-Louis Baugniet (born March 18, 1896 in Liège , † February 1, 1995 in Brussels ) was a Belgian artist . He is considered one of the most important representatives of the Belgian avant-garde . In addition to abstract paintings and collages, his work also includes important designs for furniture, ceramics and commercial graphics.

Life and education

Between 1915 and 1919 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. His fellow students include Paul Delvaux and René Magritte . In 1921, Baugniet settled in Paris. There he meets Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger, among others . In 1922 he returned to Brussels and joined the artist group 7 Arts , which was founded by Pierre-Louis Flouquet , Karel Maes and the brothers Victor and Pierre Bourgeois and which was also Felix De Boeck , Victor Servranckx , Jozef Peeters , Jean Jacques Gaillard , Marc Eemans and Stanislas Jasinski belong. The years 1922 to 1930 are regarded as the most important creative phase in Baugniet's work. In addition to paintings and design drafts, he was the director of the Fulgura advertising studio in Brussels for a short time, and costumes for his wife, the dancer Marguerite Acarin , known by her stage name Akarova.

In 1930 the 7 Arts group separated . Baugniet worked primarily as an interior architect and designer in the following years. His shop and atelier Baugniet et Cie existed until 1972.

From the 1970s, his work was rediscovered and honored in numerous exhibitions and public collections. Marcel-Louis Baugniet is considered a pioneer of abstract art in Belgium and is received as one of the most important Belgian painters of the 20th century. The Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (MAMAC) in Liège devoted a major retrospective to Baugniet in 2001.

literature

  • Bonneels, Guy & Goyens de Heusch, Serge: Marcel Baugniet in the tumult of the Avant-Garde , 2001 La Renaissance du Livre, Brussels, ISBN 978-2-8046-0474-5
  • Baugniet, Marcel-Louis: Vers une synthese esthetique et sociale (Archives du futur) , 1986 Editions Labor, ISBN 978-2-8040-0190-2
  • Dypreau, J. & E. Langui: Marcel-Louis Baugniet , 1980 Éditions Lebeer Hossmann, Brussels
  • ML Baugniet, 50 Years of Constructivism , Belgisches Haus, Cologne 1978
  • Laoureux, Denis: L'art abstrait en Belgique, La collection Dexia , 2010 Fonds Mercator / Dexia, ISBN 978-9-0615-3966-7
  • Smet, Johan De: modernisme - L'art abstrait Belge et l'Europe (1912–1930) , 2013 Mercator Fund, ISBN 978-9-4623-0001-9
  • Van Broeckhoven, Greta & Servellón, Sergio: Moderne kunst uit het interbellum Collectie van het KMSKA , 2016 Bai, ISBN 978-9-0858-6712-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goyens de Heusch, Serge: 7 Arts, Un front de jeunesse pour la révolution artistique , 1976 Le Ministere de la Culture Fancaise de Belgique,
  2. ^ Nell, Andrew: Living Art: Akarova and the Belgian Avant-Garde , Art Journal, Vol. 68, No. 2 (SUMMER 2009), pp. 26–49 </ ref [1] [2]
  3. ↑ Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België [3]
  4. ↑ BAM (Beaux-Arts Mons) [4]
  5. ^ Museum Felix De Boeck [5]
  6. ↑ Archives du Quinzième jour du mois, mensuel de l'Université de Liège [6]
personal data
SURNAME Baugniet, Marcel-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1995
Place of death Brussels