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Léon FrédéricLandscape at Nafraiture by Léon Frederic (1856 - 1940)1883
1883
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Léon Frédéric was one of the greatest representatives of Belgian symbolism and realism. He was ennobled as a baron in 1929 by King Albert I.
Discovered in 1883 by Léon Frederic on the occasion of the marriage of a cousin to the former village teacher, the village of Nafraiture and the Ardennes undoubtedly caught the attention of the painter. Every year, for forty years, the artist stayed with the farmers, staying with Philomène Poncelet, the village shopkeeper. His rural daily life inspires his main works exhibited in art fairs throughout Europe.
It will be possible to observe that this interest in the rural world, far from being isolated, is shared by a good number of artists on the European scene, from the famous Paul Gauguin to the more discreet Georges Lebrun. Léon Frederic's journey in the Ardennes proves to be as sincere as it is thoughtful, resembling a clear positioning of the artist in the artistic field.
Léon Frédéric: Landscaper, painter of allegories, religious and social subjects.
On August 26, 1856, Léon Frédéric was born in Ghent. He was the son of a master jeweler who introduced him very early to the art of drawing and painting. At fifteen, he was apprenticed to Charle-Albert, a renowned painter-decorator. The teenager is then entrusted to Jules Van Keirsbilck with whom Frédéric trains his eye and strengthens his hand. He attended evening classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels for seven years. During this time, he frequented the workshop of Jean-François Portaels. In 1875, he joined forces with young painters to rent a studio where they could study live models.
From 1876 to 1878, he prepared for the Prix de Rome in which he failed the eliminatory test. Nevertheless, his father offers him enough money to travel to Italy for a whole year. He then made a long trip in the company of the sculptor Julien Dillens to Venice, Florence, Naples, Rome. He also visited England, Germany and the Netherlands. The travels oriented his career in a decisive way: the influence of the Italian primitives then combined with that of their English imitators, the Pre-Raphaelites, and of Edward Burne-Jones in particular. The same year, he exhibited for the first time at the Brussels Salon and made his debut within the group l'Essor which brought together proponents of realism. In 1882, Léon Frédéric discovered the inspiring work of the French naturalist painter Jules Bastien Lepage. His art is the bizarre alliance of a mannered naturalism and the naivety and luxuriance of the Quattrocento and the Flemish Primitives, often executed in the form of triptychs. Frédéric's paintings frequently take the form of esoteric allegories. It is the poetry of misery, of resignation, of silent duty, of courage. If the themes of his painting are sometimes those of the French realists, his manner differs considerably: unusual lighting, harsh and discordant colors, meticulous drawing where the modeling is accentuated to the point of unusualness, busy compositions contribute to the opposite, to “derealize” his painting. These works are enough to classify him as one of the masters of the Belgian symbolist movement. They also announce certain surrealist themes.
In 1883, he accompanied his cousin to the Ardennes, to Nafraiture. Inspired by the region, he settled there for more than twenty years and reached the peak of his art by mixing idealism with reality. He is hailed as a painter brimming with promise with his painting The Chalk Merchants, a triptych uniting modernism with the genius of the primitive Masters. At the Salon of 1877, Léon Frédéric exhibited his polyptych The Ages of the Peasant, which caused the general astonishment of critics and the public; its bold and revolutionary conception opens the door to a new trend in Belgian painting. In 1899, he moved to Schaerbeek and participated in numerous international fairs and exhibitions as well as Idealist Art fairs. This is in no way incompatible with his social concerns: on the contrary, Frédéric's work is entirely characteristic of this utopian symbolism whose unrealism is only a form of protest against the state of contemporary society and a call for a better future. This is how we must interpret his great allegories, with their revealing titles: The people, one day, will see the sun or The Ages of the Worker. What is affirmed in the various works of Léon Frédéric is the sympathy he feels for the unfortunate, the disinherited by fate, the needy fighting against poverty, doomed to an obscure, undeserved, and therefore unjust, destiny. But if the red flag flies in the second of these paintings, Frédéric often prefers to take refuge in the more reassuring theme of motherhood or consoling nature. Nature is omnipresent in the production of this artist, both in his landscapes and in his social works, where he realistically depicts the life of the peasants of Flanders or the workers of the Ardennes.
- Creator:Léon Frédéric (1856 - 1940)
- Creation Year:1883
- Dimensions:Height: 20.48 in (52 cm)Width: 27.96 in (71 cm)Depth: 2.37 in (6 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:52 x 71Price: $5,457
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- Gallery Location:Gent, BE
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2140213699362
Léon Frédéric
Léon Frédéric was a Belgian Symbolist painter. In 1883, he moved to Nafraiture in the Belgian Ardennes. He painted the valley of Nafraiture several times, making it one of his principal themes of creation. In 1929, Frédéric created a Baron and Knight on the order of King Leopold. His works are present in several Museums, including Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Museums of Art and History in Brussels and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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