Auguste Levêque
{{Short description|Belgian painter}}
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Auguste Levêque (1866–1921) was a Belgian painter influenced both by realism and symbolism. Levêque was also a sculptor, poet and art theoretician.
Levêque was born in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant. He studied under Jean-François Portaels at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and received the Prix Godecharle for his painting Job in 1890.
Levêque was a member of the "Salon d'Art Idéaliste", formed by Jean Delville in Brussels in 1896, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian Rose & Cross Salon. Other members of the group were Léon Frédéric, Albert Ciamberlani, Constant Montald, Emile Motte, Victor Rousseau, Armand Point and Alexandre Séon. The Salon was abandoned in 1898.{{Cite web |url=http://www.kettererkunst.com/dict/salon-dart-idealiste.shtml |title=Salon d'Art Idéaliste |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928115213/http://www.kettererkunst.com/dict/salon-dart-idealiste.shtml |archive-date=28 September 2011 |url-status=dead }} He died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
Notable paintings
- Job
- Les Dentelles d'airain
- Panthéra et Vipérena
- Mater dolorosa
- Circé
- Dante
- Parque
- Repos
- Ouvriers tragiques
- Triomphe de la Mort
- Moisson future
- Hymne d'Amour
- Repos de Diane
- Combat de Centaures
- Portrait d'Edmond Picard (I)
- Portrait d'Edmond Picard (II)
Notable sculptures
- Fin de Sodome
- Triomphe de la Vigne
- Combat d'amazones
- Vision païenne
Gallery
File:Leveque, Auguste - Das Liebespaar 1918.jpg|Lovers, 1918
File:Auguste Levêque Hymne à la femme 1909.jpg|Hymn to women, 1909
File:Auguste Levêque - Pomone.jpg|Pomone, 1904
File:Auguste Levêque - Love Hymn.jpg|Love Hymn, 1921
File:Auguste Levêque - Painter at the Easel.jpg|Painter at the easel
References
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Sources
- P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Belgian painters born between 1750 & 1875", Knokke 1981, pp. 422–423.
External links
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- [http://balat.kikirpa.be/DPB/NL/FMPro?-db=Dictionnaire.fp5&-lay=web&-format=Detail_notice.htm&ID_dpb=3429&-find Dictionnaire des peintres belges (in french)]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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