Marie Collart

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Marie Collart (married name Marie Collart-Henrotin, also: Madame Henrotin; * December 6, 1842 in Brussels , † October 18, 1911 Nébida , Sardinia ) was a well-known Belgian landscape painter.

life and work

Marie Collart was born in 1842 into a well-to-do family, whose relationships brought her into contact with an artistic and literary milieu at an early age. Her mother, Isabelle Collart-Motte, ran a salon that was frequented by Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire . In this familiar setting, she met the painter Alfred Verwée back in the 1850s and painted with them in nature. Art dealer Arthur Stevens became her sister Elisa's husband, and her sister Julie married the painter Léonce Chabry .

Marie Collart acquired her skills largely self-taught, but of course benefited from the advice of her professional environment. Her first works were created in 1863. Her brother-in-law Stevens was the artistic advisor to King Leopold II , took care of the placement of her first works at the Paris Salon of 1865 and introduced her to the works of Corot , Courbet and Millet ; Baudelaire, in turn, had contacts with collectors who were among the first to buy her work.

As one of the emerging artists of Belgian realism, she was one of the founding members of the Societé libre des Beaux Arts in 1868. Her first international successes came in 1870 - she was awarded a gold medal at the Paris Salon (other sources: 1865).

In 1871, at the age of 29, she married the artillery officer Edmont Henrotin, which, however, - remarkably - did not detract from her artistic career, although she looked after the children and the household and her husband had nothing directly or indirectly to do with her artistic profession . In 1873 she sent to the world exhibition in Vienna, continued to exhibit regularly in the Paris Salon and also placed her work at the Exposition décennale in 1900. After Edmont Henrotin died in 1894, she moved to drug bos near Brussels

For Marie Collart-Henrotin, the last years of the 19th century were marked by artistic maturity; as a special recognition, in 1881 she was the first woman to be honored with the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Leopold , the Belgian Order of Merit. For the writer and art critic Camille Lemonnier , she was one of the best in Belgian landscape painting.

  • La campagne en mars

  • Hofstede Brabant , 1890, collection du Musée royal des Beaux - Arts d'Anvers

  • Temps gris

  • Verger , croquis, 1878

Collart-Henrotin died in Sardinia in 1911. Her remains were brought to Belgium and buried in the cemetery in Drogenbos.

Her work has been included in many private and public collections, including Hofstede in Brabant in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp or Flaamse boomgaard in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts

literature

Web links

Commons : Marie Collart-Henrotin  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Collart, Marie (Madame Henrotin) . In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present Over 250,000 biographies on one CD . Cl-Cz. Seemann, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-86502-177-9 , pp. 125 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Collart, Marie . In: Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles . Racine, Bruxelles 2006, ISBN 2-87386-434-6 , pp. 118–119 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b c Denis Laoureux: La vocation artistique à l'épreuve du mariage dans la Belgique du XIXe siècle. In: awarewomenartists.com. Retrieved on February 20, 2020 (ffr).
  4. ↑ Émilie Berger: Les créatrices "libres": faire carrière sans père ni mari artiste . In: Denis Laoureux (ed.): Femmes artistes. Les peintresses en Belgique (1880-1914) . SylvanaEditorial, Namur / Brussels 2016, p. 70 ( digitized after login ).
  5. ↑ a b c Camille Lemonnier: Marie Collart, 1842-1911: sa vie, son oeuvre . J.-E. Goossens, Brussels 1900, p. 12 ( Digitized version (viewer) via archive.org - (The specified year of publication 1900 at archive.org cannot be correct, as the text already knows the year of her death 1911)).
  6. ^ Hofstede in Brabant. In: lukasweb.be. December 11, 2018, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ artwork "Vlaamse boomgaard" - Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Collart, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collart-Henrotin, Marie (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1911
Place of death Nébida, Sardinia