Paul Delvaux

Paul Delvaux (* 23. September 1897 in Antheit (bug) in Huy , † 20th July 1994 in Veurne , West Flanders ) was a Belgian painter of Surrealism .

Monument to Paul Delvaux in Veurne.

Paul Delvaux signing 1972

Life

Delvaux first studied architecture for a year in 1917 and then painting from 1918 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels . Constant Montald was one of his teachers . In 1929 he met Anne-Marie De Martelaere, whom he married many years later, on October 25, 1952, in Boitsfort. From 1937, however, he was married to the museum secretary Suzanne Purnal until 1949. After seeing the works of René Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico and exhibiting with Magritte in 1936 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, he joined the surrealist movement in 1937. The general public saw his paintings at the 1938 surrealist exhibition in Paris. Around 1940 his work could be seen at the Exposición international de surrealismo in Mexico City. In 1951 he built a studio house in St-Idesbald, which he named Noordduin . In 1959 Paul Delvaux took part in documenta 2 in Kassel.

His characteristic works stand out for their realistic background landscapes, in front of which naked women dominate the picture. Another world of Paul Delvaux opens up in the world of the railroad ( Trains du soir ).

Large-scale murals can be seen in the Ostend Casino , the Brussels Congress Palace and the Liège Zoological Institute .

Paul Delvaux Museum in Sint-Idesbald

Delvaux worked since 1945 in the hamlet of St. Idesbald on the Belgian coast, part of the municipality of Koksijde . A small but worth seeing museum has been dedicated to his works there since 1982.

In 1950 Delvaux became a teacher at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art et d'Architecture in Brussels. In 1976 he was accepted as an external member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts .

Trivia

The asteroid (10934) Pauldelvaux is named after Delvaux .

Works

Sleeping Venus (Luxembourg, Musée national d'histoire et d'art), 1932, oil on canvas, 100 × 100 cm
Landscape with Lanterns (Vienna, Albertina, Batliner Collection , Inv.No.GE30DL), 1958, oil on Isorel, 121.5 × 159 cm
Young girl (private collection), 1976, oil, watercolors, Indian ink on wood, 90 × 74 cm

The grave of Paul Delvaux and his wife Anne-Marie De Marthelaere in the Veurne cemetery.

literature

Maurice Nadeau : The drawings by Paul Delvaux. Berlin, 1968.

Karl-Heinz Hense: About unreal life and bustling death - Paul Delvaux retrospective in Brussels. In: Mut - Forum for Culture, Politics and History No. 357. Asendorf May 1997. pp. 56–61.

Web links

Commons : Paul Delvaux - collection of images, videos and audio files

Paul Delvaux Foundation
Paul Delvaux biography at WHO'S WHO.
Biography Guggenheim Museum Venice
Literature by and about Paul Delvaux in the catalog of the German National Library
Materials by and about Paul Delvaux in the documenta archive

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Camille Brasseur: Paul Delvaux - L'homme qui aimait les trains . Editions Snoeck / Fondation Paul Delvaux, Gand / St. Idesbald 2019, ISBN 978-94-6161-572-5 , p. 230-233 (repères chronologiques) .

personal data
SURNAME	Delvaux, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Magritte, René François Ghislain (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian surrealism painter
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Huy , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH	July 20, 1994
Place of death	Veurne , Belgium

[:0-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Camille Brasseur: Paul Delvaux - L'homme qui aimait les trains . Editions Snoeck / Fondation Paul Delvaux, Gand / St. Idesbald 2019, ISBN 978-94-6161-572-5 , p. 230-233 (repères chronologiques) .