Misplaced Pages

#156843

20-475: The Royal Academy developed into an internationally acclaimed institute for Fine Arts, Architecture and Design. From the nineteenth century on, the academy attracted young artists from abroad. Irish, German, Dutch, Polish artists looking for a solid classical training found their way to Antwerp. Under the direction of Gustave Wappers (1803–1874) and his registrar Hendrik Conscience , the academy faced significant restructuring. The academy's significant art collection

40-488: A great number of pupils including Ford Madox Brown , Jozef Van Lerius , Lawrence Alma-Tadema , William Duffield , Emil Hünten , the Czech history painter Karel Javůrek , Jaroslav Čermák , Ludwig von Hagn , Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans , Eugene van Maldeghem , Ferdinand Pauwels and Jacob Jacobs . His works are numerous. Some of them depict traditional devotional subjects ("Christ Entombed"), while others illustrate

60-605: A huge impact on the contemporary fashion scene. The fashion program attracted more and more talents from all over the globe. With over 130 students it's by far the largest program in the visual arts and design department. In 1995, the Flemish higher educational system faced a radical metamorphosis. The Antwerp Academy and the Henry Van de Velde Institute were included as faculties in a bigger college structure, The University College of Antwerp (Dutch: Hogeschool Antwerpen ). However,

80-792: The Italian Renaissance started to influence the Flemish painters. The result was very different from the typical Italian Renaissance painting. The leading artist was Pieter Brueghel the Elder , who avoided direct Italian influence, unlike the Northern Mannerists . After the Siege of Antwerp (1584–1585) , the Southern Provinces of the Netherlands ("Flanders") remained under Spanish rule and were separated from

100-798: The Belgian Revolution of 1830" or rather "Episode of the September Days of 1830 on the Grand Place of Brussels", ( Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium , Brussels ) at the Antwerp Salon in 1834. He was subsequently appointed painter to Leopold, King of the Belgians . At the death of Matthieu-Ignace Van Brée in 1839 he was elevated to director of the Antwerp Academy. As a teacher at the Antwerp Academy he trained

120-630: The Burgomaster of Leiden ," appeared at the appropriate moment and had great success in the Brussels Salon in 1830, the year of the Belgian Revolution . While political, this remarkable work revolutionized the direction of Flemish painters. Wappers was invited to the court at Brussels, and was favoured with commissions. In 1832 the city of Antwerp appointed him Professor of Painting. He exhibited his masterpiece, "Episode of

140-603: The Higher Institute of Fine Arts was kept independent and to develop into a separate entity. The academy nowadays offers three distinctive programs: Visual Arts and Design, Conservation studies and a one-year dedicated teachers training. A body of 540 students (of whom 230 are international) work in the four main buildings located in the heart of the city: Mutsaardstraat (photography, silversmithing/jewelry, theatre costume design and fine arts), Nationalestraat (fashion) and Keizerstraat (graphic design). As of September 2013,

160-616: The Romantic view of history: "Charles I taking leave of his Children", "Charles IX", "Camoens", "Peter the Great at Saardam", and "Boccaccio at the Court of Joanna of Naples". Louis Philippe gave him a commission to paint a large painting for the gallery at Versailles, "The Defence of Rhodes by the Knights of St John of Jerusalem". He finished the work in 1844, the same year that he received

180-760: The arts. At the centre is the allegorical Antverpia pictorum nutrix ("Antwerp, nurse of painters"). Chronos accompanies other young students who present their artwork. The river god Scaldis , a personification of Antwerp's river Scheldt , symbolises with his cornucopia the wealth and bounty of the city's artistic heritage. Contradicties koninklijke academie voor schone kunsten 1663-nu (Eric Ubben, Johan Pas, Piet Lombaerde Et al) MER publishers. Mode Antwerpen Academie 50 ( J.P Gaultier, Kaat Debo Et al) lannoo 51°13′24″N 4°24′25″E  /  51.2234°N 4.4069°E  / 51.2234; 4.4069 Gustave Wappers Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers (23 August 1803 – 6 December 1874)

200-508: The history of the academy would be 1963. A unique new course ‘Fashion Design’ started. This course was moderately successful from the beginning years, but became renowned in the fashion world during the 1980s when “the Antwerp Six ” designers ( Dirk Bikkembergs , Walter Van Beirendonck , Marina Yee , Dries Van Noten , Dirk Van Saene and Ann Demeulemeester ) became prominent alumni. Stylistically extremely diverse, these young friends had

220-594: The independent Dutch Republic . Although many artists fled the religious wars and moved from the Southern Netherlands to the Dutch Republic (see Dutch Golden Age painting ), Flemish Baroque painting flourished, especially in the Antwerp school , during the seventeenth century under Rubens , Anthony van Dyck , and Jacob Jordaens . Following the deaths of major artists like Rubens in 1640 and

SECTION 10

#1732771826157

240-599: The leading painters in Northern Europe and attracted many promising young painters from other countries. These painters were invited to work at foreign courts and had a Europe-wide influence. Since the end of the Napoleonic era, Flemish painters have again been contributing to a reputation that had been set by the Old Masters . The Franco-Flemish School of musical composition flourished beginning at about

260-527: The painting of the whole area is (especially in the Anglophone world) typically considered as a whole, as Early Netherlandish painting . This was dominated by the Flemish south, but painters from the north were also important. Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting , of which Antwerp became the centre, covers the period up to about 1580 or later, by the end of which the north and south Netherlands had become politically separated. Flemish Baroque painting

280-472: The programs are offered by the "Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen", a fusion between Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen and Plantijn Hogeschool . Shortly after the founding of Antwerp Academy, three large paintings were executed for its meeting hall. Antwerp, Nurse of Painters , by Theodoor Boeyermans (1665; 188 x 454 cm), promotes the city's recent artistic past. Portraits of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck watch over students as they practise

300-458: The same time. The so-called Flemish Primitives were the first to popularize the use of oil paint. Their art has its origins in the miniature painting of the late Gothic period . Chief among them were Jan van Eyck , Hans Memling , Hugo van der Goes , Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden . The court of the Duchy of Burgundy was an important source of patronage. From the early 16th century,

320-537: The title of baron from Belgian king Leopold I. After retiring as director of the Antwerp Academy, he settled in 1853 in Paris, where he died in 1873. Flemish painters Flemish painting flourished from the early 15th century until the 17th century, gradually becoming distinct from the painting of the rest of the Low Countries , especially the modern Netherlands . In the early period, up to about 1520,

340-676: Was a Belgian painter. His work is generally considered to be Flemish and he signed his work with the Dutch form of his name, Gustaaf Wappers . He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and during 1826 in Paris. The Romantic movement with its new ideas about art and politics was astir in France. Wappers was the first Belgian artist to take advantage of this state of affairs, and his first exhibited painting, "The Devotion of

360-666: Was also to spend a short time at the Antwerp academy, prior to his departure to France. In 1885, King Leopold II commissioned the establishment of the National Higher Institute for Fine Arts Antwerp (Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten) as a unique post graduate program, inspired by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris . In 1946, the Architecture program became an independent institute, The National Higher Institute of Architecture. Another key moment in

380-592: Was especially important in the first half of the 17th century, dominated by Rubens . In theory the term does not refer to modern Flanders but to the County of Flanders and neighbouring areas of the Low Countries such as the Tournaisis and Duchy of Brabant . However this distinction, well understood in modern Belgium , has always been disregarded by most foreign observers and writers. Flanders delivered

400-472: Was exhibited in its own gallery space. By 1890, this gallery would develop into the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Dutch; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten) and would move to its current location in Antwerp. In 1880, a promising young artist Henry Van de Velde enrolled at the Antwerp Academy. He would become one of the pioneering 20th century architects and designers. In 1885 and 1886, Vincent van Gogh

#156843