Victor Gilsoul
Victor Gilsoul (born October 9, 1867 in Brussels , † December 5, 1939 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert / Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe ) was a Belgian landscape painter and etcher.
Following the advice of painters Louis Artan and Alfred Verveee (1838–1895), he began to draw at the age of 12. At the age of 14 he won first prize at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In 1883, at the age of 17, he had his first salon exhibition in Brussels.
Gilsoul studied at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles . He had exhibitions in “La Libre Esthétique” (1894), at the 1913 Ghent World Exhibition , in the Salon de Liège (1921). Many of his works came into the royal art collections. In 1897 the Prince of Bavaria bought two of his paintings at an international exhibition in Munich. King Leopold II of Belgium bought one of his paintings in 1890 and thirteen paintings in 1901 to adorn the royal yacht. Queen Mother Mary (mother of King Albert I of Belgium) bought two of his paintings in 1904.
In 1894 Victor Gilsoul married his fellow artist Ketty Hoppe . In 1903 the French poet and writer Camille Mauclair (1872–1945) wrote a monograph on Victor Gilsoul. In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War , Victor fled to the neutral Netherlands . In 1898 Gilsoul was made a knight by King Leopold II of Belgium .
In 1910 Gilsoul separated from his wife. In the same year he was admitted to a mental hospital as a result of arson, but was immediately released.
In 1924 he was appointed professor at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen .
literature
- Gilsoul, Victor . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 52 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Gilsoul, Victor in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (online)
- Camille Mauclair: Victor Gilsoul: collection des artistes belges contemporains : G. van Oest, 1909
Web links
- Victor Gilsoul. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilsoul, Victor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gilsoul, Victor Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian landscape painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1939 |
| Place of death | Woluwe-Saint-Lambert / Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe |