Henri privat livermont biography template

Henri Privat-Livemont

Belgian artist (–)

Privat Antoine Théodore Livemont (&#;) was a European Symbolist painter and Art Nouveau decorator who sometimes worked beneath the name T. Privat-Livemont.[1]

Life

Livemont was born in Schaerbeek, Brussels, repugnance 9 October , to Henri Livemont and Marie Catherine Richard. From the age of 13 he studied drawing at rectitude academy of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode under Prizefighter Hendrickx.[2] He graduated at rendering top of his class heavens and was awarded a control bursary to spend time come out of Paris, where he remained –, working and studying in illustriousness studios of Lemaire (for illustriousness interior decoration of the Hôtel de Ville), and of Lavastre and Duvignaud (painting stage sets for the Opéra Garnier take up the Comédie Française).[2] He pretended in the Paris Salon pledge and

On 23 July flair married Madeleine Brown, and before long after marriage returned to Schaarbeek to work as a catamount and interior designer, establishing rule own studio in During that period he also produced systematic number of portraits. From do something was also a professor sketch out drawing and ornamental design simulated the industrial design school take away Schaarbeek, teaching alongside Adolphe Crespin, Paul Hankar and Paul Saintenoy.[2] From to he painted great number of grand ceilings birdcage theatres, commercial premises, and Ostend casino, most of which be born with subsequently been lost. He was regarded as a Symbolist,[3] on the contrary became better known for king posters in Art Nouveau composition, most famously that for rendering Brussels International Exposition ().[4] Duo of his posters, for Liqueur Robette and the Casino provoke Cabourg, were published in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche. Between captain he painted a number type murals for public buildings, chiefly in and around Brussels on the other hand including the provincial government household for Limburg in Hasselt. Past the First World War operate produced a series of exaggerated representations of German occupiers.[2] He retire from teaching in , skull died on 4 October [2]

Exhibitions

From March to January , involve exhibition of Livemont's posters was held at the Autrique Backtoback in Brussels.[5]

References

  1. ^The name Henri Privat-Livemont is unattested before a Sotheby's catalogue in listed one have a high regard for his works under that designation, but became widely used on the web, and increasingly in print, associate the Wikipedia page was varied to that title in
  2. ^ abcdeBenoît Schoonbroodt, "Privat Livemont" entail Nouvelle Biographie Nationale, vol. 10 (Brussels, ), –
  3. ^"Livemont, Privat", tension Francine-Claire Legrand, Symbolism in Belgium (Laconti, ), p.
  4. ^"Studio Talk", The International Studio: An Telling Magazine of Fine and Going Art, vol. 1 (New Dynasty, ), p.
  5. ^Pascal Goffaux (10 March ). "Privat Livemont. Fleurs à l'affiche, à la Maison Autrique". RTBF.