Egide Charles Gustave Wappers

Egide Charles Gustave Wappers ( born August 23, 1803 in Antwerp, † December 6, 1874 in Paris) was a Belgian painter.

His first artistic training was Wappers at the Art Academy of his native town; there it was mainly students of the painter Mathieu Ignace van Bree and Guillaume Jacques Herreyns ( 1743-1827 ). Subsequently lived and worked Wappers some time in Paris to learn specifically by copying the old masters ( in the Louvre). According to his own statements, he was doing most affected among other by Jacob Jordaens and Peter Paul Rubens.

With 27 years Wappers had his artistic breakthrough in 1830 with a monumental painting that represents the mayor van der Werf of suffering, as he offers his body by the Spaniards at the siege of the famished people, and it prompts you to sinfulness. This Wappers became the initiator to deal creatively with the country's history. Over time, a small group of artists formed around Wappers.

1832 appointed one Wappers professor and eight years later he was entrusted with the management of the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. When one of his main disciples Lawrence Alma -Tadema is mentioned. 1845 called King Leopold I Wappers the official court painter. Already in the following year became Wappers for President of the Belgian National Museum; he held until 1853 this office.

On the occasion of his 44th birthday Wappers received by King Leopold I to the rank of a baron and was elevated to the personal nobility.

1859 could be Wappers down for the rest of his life as a freelance artist in Paris. There he died at the age of 71 years on December 6, 1874.

Works (selection)

  • The Brussels people ripping the proclamation of Prince Frederick (1835, National Museum of Brussels)
  • The Entombment of Christ (1836, St Michael's Church at Louvain )
  • Madonna surrounded on clouds of angels, the founder of the Jesuit order the Scapular erteilend ( Jesuit Church Antwerp)
  • Scene from the days of September of 1830 ( National Museum of Brussels)
  • Charles IX. shooting at the Huguenot
  • Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth of saying goodbye
  • Philip the Fair on his deathbed (1841 )
  • Camoens (1842 )
  • Genevieve of Brabant (1843 )
  • Abelard and Heloise
  • Charles I received before the execution of a lady a rose
  • Boccaccio reads of Joan of Aragon his " Decameron " before
  • Roman girl, a beggar alms -reaching
  • Children with a Newfoundland dog
  • The big Fischerzug of Antwerp
  • The capture of Rhodes by the Turks (1845 )
  • The body of the Lord in the womb of Mary ( Church of St. -Germain to Tienen )
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Belgian women, the outcome of the battle awaiting
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