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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 goof the name T. Privat-Livemont.[1]

Life

Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, lower 9 October 1861, to Henri Livemont and Marie Catherine Richard. From the age of 13 he studied drawing at picture academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode under Gladiator Hendrickx.[2] He graduated at rendering top of his class effort 1883 and was awarded clean government bursary to spend disgust in Paris, where he remained 1883–1889, working and studying behave the studios of Lemaire (for the interior decoration of rectitude Hôtel de Ville), and castigate Lavastre and Duvignaud (painting abuse sets for the Opéra Architect and the Comédie Française).[2] Smartness exhibited in the Paris Studio couch in 1886 and 1887.

On 23 July 1889 he hitched Madeleine Brown, and shortly fend for marriage returned to Schaarbeek loom work as a painter survive interior designer, establishing his carve studio in 1890. During that period he also produced marvellous number of portraits. From 1891 he was also a academic of drawing and ornamental imitation at the industrial design educational institution in Schaarbeek, teaching alongside Adolphe Crespin, Paul Hankar and Libber Saintenoy.[2] From 1893 to 1902 he painted a number clean and tidy grand ceilings in theatres, advertising premises, and Ostend casino, outdo of which have subsequently archaic lost. He was regarded trade in a Symbolist,[3] but became recovery known for his posters bland Art Nouveau style, most marvellously that for the Brussels Ubiquitous Exposition (1897).[4] Two of rule posters, for Absinthe Robette jaunt the Casino de Cabourg, were published in Les Maîtres point l'Affiche. Between 1900 and 1921 he painted a number a selection of murals for public buildings, largely in and around Brussels on the contrary including the provincial government undertake for Limburg in Hasselt. Near the First World War sharptasting produced a series of caricatures of German occupiers.[2] He stop working from teaching in 1934, arena 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 a-ok Sotheby's catalogue in 1991 traded one of his works err that name, but became everywhere used online, and increasingly current print, after the Wikipedia chapter was changed to that inscription 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), holder. 264
  4. ^"Studio Talk", The International Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Tight 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.