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Hippolyte Boulanger (Hippolyte Emmanuel Boulenger — FR., 3 Dec 1837, Tour — July 4, 1874, Brussels). Belgian artist, a landscape painter, a follower of the French Barbizon school, founder Tervurens school of painting in Belgium.
Features of the artist Hippolyte Boulanger: Despite its proximity to Barbizon, Are had their own individual, recognizable style. His painting is belong to realism, and in later works have noted the signs of impressionism and expressionism. The main thing that attracted artist is a romantic rural landscape. He was one of the early advocates of plein air painting, carefully studied, and subtly follows the natural colours, the play of light and shadow. His work played a significant role in the development of French impressionism.
Famous paintings by Hippolyte Boulanger: "The valley of Jehoshaphat in Skarbka", "After the evening storms", "The Liturgy in the Church of St. Hubert".
Hippolyte Boulanger was born into a French family in the Belgian town of Tournai. Youth the future artist spent in Paris, studying drawing. Orphaned, he went to Brussels, where he worked in the design Studio. After work in the evenings he attended classes at the Royal Academy of fine arts.
In 1863 he became acquainted with Camille van camp is a Belgian artist and Illustrator, who becomes his mentor and patron. In the same year, Boulanger introduced his paintings on display at the Brussels salon.
A year later, Boulanger went to Tervuren, where he managed to gather a group of like-minded people, which became the basis Tervurens school. Art historians often call it the Belgian version of the Barbizon school, which was also based on the confrontation of academicism, who reigned in the mid-nineteenth century in Europe. The interest and genuine love for wildlife, plein air painting, reverent attitude to the play of light and shadow — all this was the base of a new artistic direction. The location of the school served as a hostel on the market square of Tervuren. It was at this time the name of Boulanger became known in the artistic circles of Belgium.
Throughout his short (only 37 years) but eventful life of the first true connoisseur of Belgian landscapes had two art guide: painting Jean-François Milletone of the leading Barbizon school and Camille Corot.
Married, the artist moved to Zaventem, but two years later returned to Tervuren. After the move was followed by some of the most fruitful years of his artistic career. In 1872, for his work "the Old hornbeam alley. Tervuren" Boulanger received a gold medal at the Brussels salon.
During this period the artist traveled extensively throughout Belgium and abroad, is engaged in plein air painting, writes a series of landscapes on the banks of the river Meuse. He was one of the initiators of the Free society of fine arts in Brussels, members of which were Belgian artists Charles de Groux, Constantin Meunier, Félicien ROPSand the French, Corot, millet, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbetand Dutch Willem Maris.
Despite such a short life, realistic painting Boulanger changing. At the end of life, the artist uses not only the usual nineteenth-century techniques, but also conveys an emotional state, showing the fickle moods of nature, using deep and dark shades. Critics see this as a manifestation of expressionism, considering the artist the forerunner of twentieth century art.
Hippolyte Boulanger died in 1874 at the Brussels hotel. Since 1869 he suffered from epilepsy. Disease, and excessive thirst for alcohol led to his premature death.
Author: Lyudmila Lebedeva
Features of the artist Hippolyte Boulanger: Despite its proximity to Barbizon, Are had their own individual, recognizable style. His painting is belong to realism, and in later works have noted the signs of impressionism and expressionism. The main thing that attracted artist is a romantic rural landscape. He was one of the early advocates of plein air painting, carefully studied, and subtly follows the natural colours, the play of light and shadow. His work played a significant role in the development of French impressionism.
Famous paintings by Hippolyte Boulanger: "The valley of Jehoshaphat in Skarbka", "After the evening storms", "The Liturgy in the Church of St. Hubert".
Hippolyte Boulanger was born into a French family in the Belgian town of Tournai. Youth the future artist spent in Paris, studying drawing. Orphaned, he went to Brussels, where he worked in the design Studio. After work in the evenings he attended classes at the Royal Academy of fine arts.
In 1863 he became acquainted with Camille van camp is a Belgian artist and Illustrator, who becomes his mentor and patron. In the same year, Boulanger introduced his paintings on display at the Brussels salon.
A year later, Boulanger went to Tervuren, where he managed to gather a group of like-minded people, which became the basis Tervurens school. Art historians often call it the Belgian version of the Barbizon school, which was also based on the confrontation of academicism, who reigned in the mid-nineteenth century in Europe. The interest and genuine love for wildlife, plein air painting, reverent attitude to the play of light and shadow — all this was the base of a new artistic direction. The location of the school served as a hostel on the market square of Tervuren. It was at this time the name of Boulanger became known in the artistic circles of Belgium.
Throughout his short (only 37 years) but eventful life of the first true connoisseur of Belgian landscapes had two art guide: painting Jean-François Milletone of the leading Barbizon school and Camille Corot.
Married, the artist moved to Zaventem, but two years later returned to Tervuren. After the move was followed by some of the most fruitful years of his artistic career. In 1872, for his work "the Old hornbeam alley. Tervuren" Boulanger received a gold medal at the Brussels salon.
During this period the artist traveled extensively throughout Belgium and abroad, is engaged in plein air painting, writes a series of landscapes on the banks of the river Meuse. He was one of the initiators of the Free society of fine arts in Brussels, members of which were Belgian artists Charles de Groux, Constantin Meunier, Félicien ROPSand the French, Corot, millet, Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbetand Dutch Willem Maris.
Despite such a short life, realistic painting Boulanger changing. At the end of life, the artist uses not only the usual nineteenth-century techniques, but also conveys an emotional state, showing the fickle moods of nature, using deep and dark shades. Critics see this as a manifestation of expressionism, considering the artist the forerunner of twentieth century art.
Hippolyte Boulanger died in 1874 at the Brussels hotel. Since 1869 he suffered from epilepsy. Disease, and excessive thirst for alcohol led to his premature death.
Author: Lyudmila Lebedeva
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