François Stroobant

François Stroobant ( Fl. [ stʁo ː bɐnt ] / French [ stʀo ː bɑ ] ), sometimes also called Vaporeau, ( born June 14, 1819 in Brussels, † June 1, 1916 in Elsene ) was a Belgian painter, engraver, draftsman, lithographer, watercolorist and illustrator. He mainly created landscaping, urban and building elevations, to architectural design drawings in the style of " romantic realism".

Life

François Stroobant was the third of four children of the waiter Pieter Stroobant (1784-1855) and his wife Joanna Catherina de Raeymaeker. His eldest brother Louis- Constantin Stroobant (1814-1872) was later head of a lithographic printing plant in Ghent.

François Stroobant took in 1835 with 16 years of its activity in the lithographic studio Dewasme - PLETINCKX in Brussels, where he was trained by the painter Paul Lauter ( 1806-1875 ). From 1832 to 1847 he studied at the "Brussels Academy of Fine Arts " at its rector François -Joseph Navez ( 1787-1869 ), neo-classical painting mainly religious themes and historical portraiture with Paul Lauter. To this end, he attended lectures at François Bossuet (1798-1889), a then well-known painter on cityscapes, which was crucial for Stroobants later career, as it was his special interest in addition to landscapes. He traveled, even during his student days, through many European countries: Netherlands, France, Germany (1860, 1884), Austria - Hungary ( Views of Prague ), Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Poland ( Krakow, Wawel church, palace of King Casimir the Great, Treasury, 1859). He made locally bleach pen sketches, drawings, and sometimes watercolors, which he then meticulously related after returning to his studio as a template for lithographs, etchings and oil paintings. He pointed out also commissioned works a larger scale, including wall paintings often featuring Belgian city views, such as the Town Hall of Brussels and the episcopal palace of Liege in motifs in the Guild Hall in London. In Brussels, some public bodies are adorned with his works, including murals.

François Stroobant married on May 29, 1849 Adeline Genis (* June 30, 1830 in Brussels, † July 16, 1908 in Elsene ) in Brussels. The couple had over the course of 18 years, eight children, six daughters first, then followed by two sons. Daughter Marguerite, the sixth child, entered as a single in the footsteps of his famous father time and was still life painter.

In 1850 he began the publication of representative views of Belgium in " Le Magasin pittoresque " (1833 founded by writer and lawyer Edouard Charton ) and Le Juif errant ( Belgian issue), and later city views of Oostende ( 1847), Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels, Liege, Spa, Bruges (1884 ) added. Several works (eg: François Stroobant, Felix Stappaerts: Le Brabant et Les Flandres Anvers, Liège et le Hainaut ) and publications contained his illustrations. From Germany he produced several views of the resin, lithographs and watercolor pencil drawings of the Rhine area (eg Rhine Castle Rock, St. Goar with the old Rhein- Krahnen of 1658). Many of his (color) lithographs published by Simonau & Toovey in Brussels with Charles Muquardt ( one of his masterpieces: " monumental Rhin et pittoresque " ( " Monumental and pittoresquer Rhine " ), 1854, 30 lithographs ).

1865 founded François Stroobant the " Académie de Molenbeek Saint -Jean " in Brussels and its first director. In 1878 he was named " Officer of the Order of Leopold " (after King Leopold I of Belgium, French " Officier de l' Ordre de Léopold " ) appointed. Until the 1880s, he worked in as an artist.

Mature high he died in 1916 at the age of 97 years. In the Municipality of Uccle (3 km south of the center ) his hometown of Brussels, a street is named after him - François Stroobantstraat - Rue François Stroobant.