Even though Georges de Feure, initially Georges Joseph Van Sluijters, can be considered as an artist who had played a major role in the development of French art between 1980 and 1905, a relatively large piece of information about both private life and his career remain unknown.
He was born on 6th of November, 1969 in Paris, and had a more or less artistic background: a son of a Dutch architect, Jan Hendrick van Sluijters, and a Belgian mother, whose name is not stated in any of the source. However, his family could not remain in a so-called “City of Art”, and, because of the Franco-Prussian War, was literally forced to flee the country. From that point, they had moved to wherever Jan was able to get a job for himself, staying in a variety of towns in Amsterdam and Belgium.
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Many of those were devoted to a single theme, to which the artist gave his preference for his whole life: they depicted pale and mysterious women in restricted pallets of browns, greens, and rose. Other in a more garish palette of yellows, reads and blues were less successful. These were so called femme fatale, the echoes of which are clearly seen in the majority of de Feure works.
Although the poster artist, Jules Cheret, might have influenced him, it is unlikely that de Feure had studied under him. However, some of the other sources state quite an opposite.
During this period, he had participated in many exhibitions: at the Expositions des Peintres Impressionistes at Synbolistes (1892 and 1895), the Salon de la Rosa at Croix (1893 and 1894), the Salon de Cent (1894-95), the Salons de la Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris (1994-98) and Brussels (1895). His first one-man show was held in Paris, in
He was born on 6th of November, 1969 in Paris, and had a more or less artistic background: a son of a Dutch architect, Jan Hendrick van Sluijters, and a Belgian mother, whose name is not stated in any of the source. However, his family could not remain in a so-called “City of Art”, and, because of the Franco-Prussian War, was literally forced to flee the country. From that point, they had moved to wherever Jan was able to get a job for himself, staying in a variety of towns in Amsterdam and Belgium.
Apart from a brief period of attending evening classes at the Royal Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam, …show more content…
Many of those were devoted to a single theme, to which the artist gave his preference for his whole life: they depicted pale and mysterious women in restricted pallets of browns, greens, and rose. Other in a more garish palette of yellows, reads and blues were less successful. These were so called femme fatale, the echoes of which are clearly seen in the majority of de Feure works.
Although the poster artist, Jules Cheret, might have influenced him, it is unlikely that de Feure had studied under him. However, some of the other sources state quite an opposite.
During this period, he had participated in many exhibitions: at the Expositions des Peintres Impressionistes at Synbolistes (1892 and 1895), the Salon de la Rosa at Croix (1893 and 1894), the Salon de Cent (1894-95), the Salons de la Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris (1994-98) and Brussels (1895). His first one-man show was held in Paris, in