Paul Delvaux

Also known as Paul François Ernest Delvaux, Delvaux

Belgian painter (1897-1994)

Key facts

Born: ( 1897-09-23 ) 23 September 1897, Antheit , Belgium
Died: 20 July 1994 (1994-07-20) (aged 96), Veurne , Belgium
Education: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
Known for: Painting
Notable work: Sleeping Venus (1944), Hommage à Jules Verne (1971)
Spouse s: Suzanne Purnal (m. 1937, div. 1948), Anne-Marie "Tam" de Maertelaere (m. 1952, d. 1989)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Paul
Gender: male
Citizenship: Belgium
Place of birth: Antheit
Place of death: Veurne
Occupation: graphic artist
Educated at: Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Participant in: Documenta II
Field of work: painting
Image: Paul Delvaux by Willy Bosschem247.jpg
Work location: Brussels

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Commons category: Paul Delvaux
date of birth: 1897-09-23
date of death: 1994-07-20
Commons Creator page: Paul Delvaux
copyright representative: SABAM
has works in the collection: La Boverie
member of: Académie des beaux-arts

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Encyclopedic overview

Paul Delvaux ( French: [dɛlvo]; 23 September 1897 – 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination. He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the surrealist movement. He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, but developed his own fantastical subjects and hyper-realistic styling, combining the detailed classical beauty of academic painting with the bizarre juxtapositions of surrealism.

Throughout his long career, Delvaux explored "Nude and skeleton, the clothed and the unclothed, male and female, desire and horror, eroticism and death – Delvaux's major anxieties in fact, and the greater themes of his later work [...]".

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