Georges Fichefet
artiste-peintre
Bruges 1864 - Uccle 1954
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"Belge dans toute l’acception du mot,
alliant les vertus et les influences
de ses ancêtres wallons et flamands,
Georges Fichefet est digne d’admiration et de respect."
in Wallonia, 1er septembre 1933
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Peintre post-impressionniste de paysages, personnages et portraits. Egalement aquafortiste. Elève aux Académies de Namur et de Bruxelles (1880-84, J. Portaels). Troisième Prix de Rome en peinture (1889). Membre de L'Essor et co-fondateur de Pour l'Art (1892). Travaille dans les environs de Bruxelles, sur la Côte belge et en Bretagne. Oeuvres aux Musées d'Ixelles, Namur et Verviers.
(selon Dictionnaire biographique ARTO)
Notice biographique de BERNABE SOMOZA GALLERY (Houston U.S.A.)
(524) Georges FICHEFET
(Bruges, 1864 - 1954, Brussels)
The little pond
Oil on canvas
25 1/2" x 18 1/4"
34 1/2" x 27" framed
LR: G. Fichefet
Typically a painter of landscapes, marine scenes, figures, and portraits, Fichefet was a very well-schooled artist. He studied first at the School of the Beaux-Arts in Namur, and then moved to Brussels to paint under the famed J.F. Portaels at the Academy there. While under the influence of such an esteemed atelier, Fichefet painted windmills, farms and cloisters demonstrating a wonderful working knowledge of the different effects of light on the landscape.
While in Brussels, Fichefet became associated with two rather important artistic circles: "L'Essor" and "Pour l'Art". He was a co-founder of L'Essor, and was the founding member of Pour l'Art in 1892. These types of artistic circles were especially important at the time because they provided for a constant influx of ideas amongst their members, and he undoubtedly benefited from them.
In 1889, Fichefet was a Laureat in the very important Prix de Rome contest, and participated in 1910 in an international exhibition in Brussels. His success as a painter secured him wall space in several museums and international private collections.
Recorded:
Benezit, Emmanuel. Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs. (Paris: Librairie Grund, 1976).Berko, Patrick and Viviane. Dictionary of Belgian Painters Born Between 1750 & 1875. (Brussels: Editions Laconti, 1981).
Le Dictionnaire des Peintres Belges du XIVe Siècle à nos Jours. (Brussels: La Renaissance du Livre, 1995).
Piron, Paul. De Belgische Beeldende Kunstenaars. (Brussels: Art in Belgium, 1998).
Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker. Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Kunstler. (Leipzig: Veb E. A. Seemann Verlag).
Collections :
Ixelles: Jeune Anglaise ; Namur: Jeune Fille a la Raquette ; Verviers
Jeune Anglaise (fragment) - Musée d'Ixelles