Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert
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Hippolyte Gevaert or Fierens-Gevaert (1870, Brussels - 1926, Liège) was a Belgian art historian, philosopher, art critic, singer and writer.
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Gustave van de Woestyne - Portrait of Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert (1870-1926) - lithograph - Royal Library of Belgium - S.III 76733
Life[]
He had studied at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles in 1890 and won first prize for singing. That same year he married Jacqueline Marthe Gevaert, daughter of the musician François-Auguste Gevaert (1828-1908). He then joined the Opéra de Lille, but an accident with his voice ended his singing career. He moved to Paris, where he began working as a journalist, writer and art critic and changed his surname to Fierens-Gevaert.
He later became the first curator of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and was also a professor of aesthetics and art history.
Works[]
- Essai sur l’art contemporain, Paris : Alcan, 1897
- La tristesse contemporaine, Paris : Alcan, 1899
- Psychologie d’une ville, essai sur Bruges, Paris : Alcan, 1901
- L'Hôtel de ville de Paris, Paris : Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1902
- Van Dyck, Paris : H. Laurens, 1903
- Nouveaux essays sur l’art contemporain, Paris : Alcan, 1903
- Jordaens : biographie critique, Paris : H. Laurens, 1905
- Études sur l'art flamand, La Renaissance septentrionale et les premiers maîtres des Flandres, Brussels : G. van Oest, 1905
- L’Art au XXe siècle et son expression en Belgique, Brussels : Éditions de la Belgique, 1907
- La peinture en Belgique, musées, églises, collections, etc/ Les Primitifs Flamands, 2 vols/, Brussels : G. van Oest, 1908-1909
- La peinture au Musée ancien de Bruxelles, Brussels : G. van Oest, 1913
- L'enseignement de l'histoire de l'art en Belgique, Revue de Synthèse historique 28, 82 (1914) : 82-90,
- Les Très Belles Heures de Jean de France, duc de Berry, Brussels : Weckesser, 1924 [and Fierens, Paul : 3rd vol.]
- Histoire de la peinture flamande des origines à la fin du XVe siècle, 3 vols, Brussels : G. van Oest, 1927-1929
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Categories:
- Writers from Brussels
- 1870 births
- 1926 deaths
- Belgian art historians
- 20th-century Belgian philosophers
- Belgian art critics
- Belgian singers
- Royal Conservatory of Brussels alumni