Jean Delville

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Belgian Artist Jean Delville was born Jean Libert on 19th January, 1867 in Leuven, Belgium and passed away on 19th Jan 1953 Forest, Brussels, Belgium aged 86. He is most remembered for Tristan et Yseult (1887); Le Cycle Passionnel (1890; destroyed); La Symbolisation de la Chair et de l'Esprit (1890); L'Idole de La Perversité (1891); Mysteriosa. Portrait de Mme Stuart Merrill (1892),.... His zodiac sign is Capricorn.

Jean Delville is a member of the following lists: 1953 deaths, 1867 births and Belgian painters.

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First Name	Jean
Last Name	Delville
Full Name at Birth	Jean Libert
Birthday	19th January, 1867
Birthplace	Leuven, Belgium
Died	19th January, 1953
Place of Death	Forest, Brussels, Belgium
Zodiac Sign	Capricorn
Nationality	Belgian
Occupation Text	Painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, and theosophist
Occupation	Artist
Claim to Fame	Tristan et Yseult (1887); Le Cycle Passionnel (1890; destroyed); La Symbolisation de la Chair et de l'Esprit (1890); L'Idole de La Perversité (1891); Mysteriosa. Portrait de Mme Stuart Merrill (1892), ...

Jean Delville (19 January 1867 – 19 January 1953) was a Belgian symbolist painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, and Theosophist. Delville was the leading exponent of the Belgian Idealist movement in art during the 1890s. He held, throughout his life, the belief that art should be the expression of a higher spiritual truth and that it should be based on the principle of Ideal, or spiritual Beauty. He executed a great number of paintings during his active career from 1887 to the end of the second World War (many now lost or destroyed) expressing his Idealist aesthetic. Delville was trained at the Académie des Beaux-arts in Brussels and proved to be a highly precocious student, winning most of the prestigious competition prizes at the Academy while still a young student. He later won the Belgian Prix de Rome which allowed him to travel to Rome and Florence and study at first hand the works of the artists of the Renaissance. During his time in Italy he created his celebrated masterpiece L'Ecole de Platon (1898), which stands as a visual summary of his Idealist aesthetic which he promoted during the 1890s in his writings, poetry and exhibitions societies, notably the Salons d'Art Idéaliste.

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