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1871 - 1946. Known for: Portrait, landscape and still life painting, lithography and pastel.
Gustave Max Stevens, born in 1871 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and died in 1946 in Brussels, is a Belgian painter. Painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes, Gustave Max Stevens also practiced... Read full biography
Gustave Max Stevens, born in 1871 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and died in 1946 in Brussels, is a Belgian painter. Painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes, Gustave Max Stevens also practiced lithography, pastel. He was the student of Jean-François Portaels at the School of Fine Arts in... Read full biography
Gustave Max Stevens, born in 1871 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and died in 1946 in Brussels, is a Belgian painter. Painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes, Gustave Max Stevens also practiced lithography, pastel. He was the student of Jean-François Portaels at the School of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1886 and remained there four years in painting class. He studied under Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He co-founded and presided over Le Sillon, artistic movement of... Read full biography
Gustave Max Stevens, born in 1871 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and died in 1946 in Brussels, is a Belgian painter. Painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes, Gustave Max Stevens also practiced lithography, pastel. He was the student of Jean-François Portaels at the School of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1886 and remained there four years in painting class. He studied under Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He co-founded and presided over Le Sillon, artistic movement of visual arts, founded in 1893 in Brussels. This circle wwas originally composed of young artists from the Brussels Academy who wanted to counterbalance neo-impressionism. They advocated a return to the rich tradition of Flemish realistic painting by... Read full biography
Gustave Max Stevens, born in 1871 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and died in 1946 in Brussels, is a Belgian painter. Painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes, Gustave Max Stevens also practiced lithography, pastel. He was the student of Jean-François Portaels at the School of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1886 and remained there four years in painting class. He studied under Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He co-founded and presided over Le Sillon, artistic movement of visual arts, founded in 1893 in Brussels. This circle wwas originally composed of young artists from the Brussels Academy who wanted to counterbalance neo-impressionism. They advocated a return to the rich tradition of Flemish realistic painting by favoring the effects of lights. These painters use a rich palette and more and more bright and show their preference for the use of thick layers of pa... Read full biography
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Gustave Max Stevens, born in 1871 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode and died in 1946 in Brussels, is a Belgian painter.
Painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes, Gustave Max Stevens also practiced lithography, pastel. He was the student of Jean-François Portaels at the School of Fine Arts in Brussels from 1886 and remained there four years in painting class. He studied under Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He co-founded and presided over Le Sillon, artistic movement of visual arts, founded in 1893 in Brussels. This circle wwas originally composed of young artists from the Brussels Academy who wanted to counterbalance neo-impressionism. They advocated a return to the rich tradition of Flemish realistic painting by favoring the effects of lights. These painters use a rich palette and more and more bright and show their preference for the use of thick layers of paint whose application is closer to the palette knife than the brush.
In 1894, Gustave Max Stevens married Adèle Overloop, whose mother ran a sewing workshop for an upscale clientele in rue Fossé-aux-Loups. If Gustave Max is the youngest of seven children, Adele is an only child and will hardly ever leave her parents.
After their marriage, Gustave Max Stevens lived with his wife and in-laws at 19, rue Fossé-aux-Loups, next to the fashion house, and he set up his studio at 11, rue des Douze Apostles.
In 1900, the architect Théo Van Mol (1870-1943) built a bourgeois house with an artist's studio, marked by geometric Art Nouveau, at 51 rue de la Cambre in Ixelles.
He exhibited at the first Salon d'art idéaliste in 1896 and at the Salon des artistes français. He won a bronze medal at the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1900. Gustave Max Stevens paints the child and the fragility of this state and organizes in 1905 an exhibition on the theme "Art and the Child".
Influenced initially by the movement of English Pre-Raphaelites, he evolved after a trip to Algeria and Tunisia to a more personal style close to Impressionism. He is considered a painter of Belgian Art Nouveau and also produced orientalist works. He contributed to L'Estampe moderne.
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