George Minne

Baron George Minne ( born August 30, 1866 in Ghent, † February 20, 1941 in Sint -Martens- Latem ) was a Flemish painter, draftsman and sculptor.

Life

Minne was from 1880 first architecture student and pupil of Jean Delvin at the Academy of Ghent. Here he studied from 1883 to 1886 painting by Théodore Channeel and sculpture with Louis Van Biesbroek. He was friends with the author, writer and Nobel Prize for Literature Maurice Maeterlinck, whose works he illustrated ( Serres, 1886, Soeur Béatrice, 1900). In 1890 he exhibited some of his works in the context of the Belgian artist group Les XX, among other things, the painter James Ensor and Fernand Khnopff belonged. In 1891 he also became a member of this group of artists. In the same year George Minne went to Paris to become a student of Auguste Rodin there, however, he was dismissed. From 1895 to 1896 he attended a course at Charles Van der Stappen at the Academy Brussels. In 1889 he moved to Sint -Martens- Latem to, similar to the German Worpswede to start with the painters Albinus Van den Abeele, Valerius De Saedeleer, Albert Servaes and Gustaaf Van de Woestijne own artist colony that Latemse School. The style of painting was based heavily on symbolism.

In 1912 he lectured briefly at the Ghent Academy and fled after the outbreak of the First World War with his wife to Wales. After the war he took up teaching again. In 1931 he was honored with the title of baron.

Work

The main work of Minnesota is located in the mystical symbolism and influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism sculptures: Mostly kneeling bronze figures, for example Grieving mother with two children, representing subdued pain or tenderness. The Museum Folkwang in Essen presents permanent exhibition La fontaine aux agenouillés ( Fountain with kneeling boy, 1905/1906 ).