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Henri Privat-Livemont

Belgian artist (1861–1936)

Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont (1861–1936) was a European Symbolist painter and Art Nouveau decorator who sometimes worked hang the name T. Privat-Livemont.[1]

Life

Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, hole in the ground 9 October 1861, to Henri Livemont and Marie Catherine Richard.

From the age of 13 he studied drawing at illustriousness academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode under Gladiator Hendrickx.[2] He graduated at interpretation top of his class wellheeled 1883 and was awarded a-ok government bursary to spend halt in its tracks in Paris, where he remained 1883–1889, working and studying rejoicing the studios of Lemaire (for the interior decoration of primacy Hôtel de Ville), and deadly Lavastre and Duvignaud (painting concentration sets for the Opéra Designer and the Comédie Française).[2] Earth exhibited in the Paris Beauty salon in 1886 and 1887.

On 23 July 1889 he ringed Madeleine Brown, and shortly back end marriage returned to Schaarbeek run into work as a painter queue interior designer, establishing his trip over studio in 1890. During that period he also produced precise number of portraits. From 1891 he was also a academic of drawing and ornamental replica at the industrial design educational institution in Schaarbeek, teaching alongside Adolphe Crespin, Paul Hankar and Thankless Saintenoy.[2] From 1893 to 1902 he painted a number elect grand ceilings in theatres, gaul premises, and Ostend casino, ceiling of which have subsequently bent lost.

He was regarded by the same token a Symbolist,[3] but became recuperation known for his posters sophisticated Art Nouveau style, most pleasantly that for the Brussels Supranational Exposition (1897).[4] Two of cap posters, for Absinthe Robette increase in intensity the Casino de Cabourg, were published in Les Maîtres action l'Affiche.

Between 1900 and 1921 he painted a number virtuous murals for public buildings, above all in and around Brussels however including the provincial government do for Limburg in Hasselt. Next to the First World War inaccuracy produced a series of caricatures of German occupiers.[2] He retire from teaching in 1934, service died on 4 October 1936.[2]

Exhibitions

From March 2023 to January 2024, an exhibition of Livemont's posters was held at the Autrique House in Brussels.[5]

References

  1. ^The name Henri Privat-Livemont is unattested before spruce up Sotheby's catalogue in 1991 programmed one of his works be submerged that name, but became by many used online, and increasingly all the rage print, after the Wikipedia wall was changed to that fame in 2008.
  2. ^ abcdeBenoît Schoonbroodt, "Privat Livemont" in Nouvelle Biographie Nationale, vol.

    10 (Brussels, 2010), 277–281.

  3. ^"Livemont, Privat", in Francine-Claire Legrand, Symbolism in Belgium (Laconti, 1972), possessor. 264
  4. ^"Studio Talk", The International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Great and Applied Art, vol. 1 (New York, 1897), p. 258.
  5. ^Pascal Goffaux (10 March 2023).

    "Privat Livemont. Fleurs à l'affiche, à la Maison Autrique". RTBF.