Auguste Levêque
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Bacchanalia, oil on canvas
Auguste Levêque (1866 – 1921) was a Belgian painter influenced both by realism and symbolism. Levêque was also a sculptor, poet and art theoretician.
Levêque was born in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant. He studied under Jean-François Portaels at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and received the Prix Godecharle for his painting Job in 1890.
Levêque was a member of the "", formed by Jean Delville in Brussels in 1896, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian . Other members of the group were Léon Frédéric, , Constant Montald, Emile Motte, Victor Rousseau, Armand Point and Alexandre Séon. The Salon was abandoned in 1898.[1] He died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
Notable paintings[]
- Job
- Les Dentelles d'airain
- Panthéra et Vipérena
- Mater dolorosa
- Circé
- Dante
- Parque
- Repos
- Ouvriers tragiques
- Triomphe de la Mort
- Moisson future
- Hymne d'Amour
- Repos de Diane
- Combat de Centaures
- Portrait d'Edmond Picard (I)
- Portrait d'Edmond Picard (II)
Notable sculptures[]
- Fin de Sodome
- Triomphe de la Vigne
- Combat d'amazones
- Vision païenne
References[]
- ^ "Salon d'Art Idéaliste". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
Sources[]
- P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, pp. 422–423.
External links[]
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- Dictionnaire des peintres belges (in french)[permanent dead link]
Categories:
- 1866 births
- 1921 deaths
- People from Nivelles
- 19th-century Belgian painters
- 20th-century Belgian painters
- Belgian painter stubs