Maurice Romberg

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Maurice Romberg de Vaucorbeil (* 1861 or 1862 in Schaerbeek , Belgium , † 1943 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , France ) was a Belgian-French genre painter and illustrator from the Düsseldorf School . He was best known for his orientalist and military subjects.

Life

Romberg, the third of four children of Adolphe Maurice Romberg (1818–1898) and his wife Stephanie, née Claret, studied from 1883 to 1886 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he was a student of Heinrich Lauenstein , Hugo Crola and Peter Janssen the Elder . In 1883 and 1884 he attended the elementary class, in 1884 and 1885 the preparatory class A, in 1885 the preliminary class as well as the ancient and natural class. In 1887 or 1888 Romberg left Europe and moved to Morocco , where he lived first in Tétouan , then in Meknes , and finally in Marrakech . In Marrakech he was the first European painter to settle there. In order to be able to draw and paint Maghrebian street scenes undisturbed , he dressed according to local customs. He supplied Brussels newspapers with drawings. His works have also appeared at exhibitions in Paris, Brussels and London. For three years he accompanied the archaeologist Henri de La Martinière (1859–1922) on a study trip through North Africa. He traveled in Mauritania for several years . Romberg created the illustrations for Walter Burton Harris ' Tafilat: The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration to the Atlas Mountains and the Oases of the North-west Sahara , which was published in Edinburgh and London in 1895. In 1898 he published under the title Types de l'Armée belge the color prints of ten watercolors depicting types of Belgian uniforms. He also emerged as a designer of posters . After the First World War , in which he fought as a Belgian soldier on the Yser Front and created military motifs for postcards for the Paris publisher Léopold Verger & Cie , Romberg became a French citizen. In 1922, Romberg was one of 38 artists who were shown under the patronage of Hubert Lyautey in an exhibition of Moroccan painting at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris.

literature

  • Lynne Thornton et al .: Maurice Romberg. Quand l'art s'affichait. L'affiche ancienne au Maroc et au Maghreb . Exhibition catalog, Bibliothèque générale de Rabat, Rabat / Morocco 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maurice Romberg ( Memento of February 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), short biography in the portal klm-mra.be ( Musée Royal de l'Armée )
  2. ↑ Information on Maurice Romberg de Vaucorbeil in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 438
  4. ↑ Cf. nos. 11991–11995 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  5. ↑ Élisabeth Cazenave: Les artistes de l'Algérie , Association Abd-el-Tif, 2010, p. 384
  6. ↑ List des cartes postales en relation à Illustrateur Maurice Romberg , website in the portal cartophilie.be , accessed on 25 February 2017
  7. ↑ Mylène Théliol: L'association des peintres et sculpteurs du Maroc (1922-1933) . In: Rives méditerranéennes , 2009, p. 237 ff. ( Digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Romberg, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Romberg de Vaucorbeil, Maurice (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-French genre painter and illustrator from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaerbeek , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH 1943
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine , France