Discover sculptor, graphic artist, painter Constantin Meunier

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: Meunier, Constantin Émile
Meunier, Constantin-Émile

Qualifications: sculptor, graphic artist, painter

Nationality/school: Belgian

Born: Etterbeek 1831-04-12

Deceased: Elsene 1905-04-04

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: broer van Jean-Baptiste Meunier

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3 hits in RKDimages as artist
34 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Education: Académie des Beaux-Arts (Brussel)

1845-1854

Active in

Brussel 1850
Westmalle (Malle) 1857 - 1875
verbleef regelmatig in het Trappistenklooster daar
Sevilla (stad) 1882 - 1883
kopieerde in opdracht van de Belgische regering
België 1888
Reisde met X. Mellery, F. Rops en C. Lemonnier door de Borinage

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active in

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Connections with other artists

Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Sintenis, Walter
Wijk, Charles van
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Beuys, Joseph
Ambrosi, Gustinus
Egger-Lienz, Albin
Perez, Augusto
Dell'Antonio, Cirillo
Franges-Mihanovic, Robert
Clarasó y Daudi, Enrique

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: Christian religious scene, genre, landscape (genre), portrait, history (genre), cityscape

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 34 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 24 (1930), p. 453- (as: Meunier, Constantin Émile)
Bénézit 1966
Berko 1981
Eemans 1975
Witt Checklist 1978
Flippo 1981
Cardyn-Oomen et al. 1986 , p. 123-125
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 21
Piron 1999

S.a., 'Constantin Meunier', The Burlington Magazine 7 (1905), p. 96 (in memoriam)
R. Petrucci en Ch. Richetts, Constantin Meunier', The Burlington Magazine 7 (1905), p. 177-187
L. Tombu, p.eintres et sculpteurs Belges à l'aube du xxme siècle, Liège 1907, p. 23 en passim
F.-C. Legrand, Het Symbolisme in België, Brussel 1971, p. 103, 113, 175
M. Bouchard, '"Un Monument au Travail": The projects of Meunier, Dalou, Rodin and Bouchard', The Oxford Art Journal, november 1981, p. 28-35
J. Block, Les XX and Belgian Avant-Gardism 1868-1894, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1984, p. 1 en passim
P. Baudson, 'La Collection du Musée Constantin Meunier. Approche de trois modes d'expression d'un artiste', Bulletin Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, 1985-1988, 1-3, p. 295-313
D. Coekelberghs, Quelques aspectes de l'art en Belgique aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles - Enkele aspecten van de Belgische kunst in de 18de en 19de eeuw, tentoonstellingscatalogus Brussel, Galerie d'Arenberg, 1988 (tekst in het Frans en het Nederlands)
A. Alhadeff, 'Meunier and Minne: Subterranean Visions and the Blue Summits of the Soul', Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, dl. 65, nr. 1 (1989), p. 23-35
H. de Vilder en M. Wynants, De School van Tervuren, Tervuren 2000
Cat.tent. De romantiek in België.Tussen werkelijkheid en verlangen, Brussel (Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België) 2005, cat. 195
M. Draguet, Het Symbolisme in België, Brussel 2004, p. 23 en passim
F. Vandepitte, 'Constantin Meunier & Siegfied Bing: tussen Realisme en Art nouveau', Siegfried Bing & la Belgique, Bulletin - Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 1 (2010), p. 156-175
M. Jonkman, E. Geudeker, Mythen van het atelier. Werkplaats en schilderpraktijk van de negentiende-eeuwse Nederlandse kunstenaar, Zwolle 2010, p. 181
T. Dekeukeleire, 'Tussen naakt en bloot. Constantin Meuniers Grote mijnwerker en het negentiende-eeuwse mannelijke naakt', Article. Studiarttijdschrift 14 (2015), p. 10-13

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Project: Marques de Collections (F. Lugt)
Modern sculpture

External links: Lugt (Marques de Collections) no. L.4720 (as: Meunier, Constantin-Émile)

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Creation date: 1991-11-20; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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