Gabriel Van Dievoet

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Gabriel Van Dievoet, 1875-1934, decorator art nouveau.
Gabriel Van Dievoet, staying right in his atelier at 71, rue Faider Ixelles, with Leon Van Cutsem and two apprentices, photo 1895.
Gabriel Van Dievoet in compagny with his tante the general Rouen wife and his nièce Andrée de Gachassin-Lafite, c.o.1921

Gabriel Van Dievoet is a Belgian decorator and Liberty style sgraffitist of great talent. He was the brother of the architect Henri Van Dievoet. He was born in Brussels on 12 April 1875, quai Bois à Brûler, 37, and died in Saint-Gilles (Brussels) on 17 November 1934.

He was the son of Leon Van Dievoet, ship-owner and maritime-agent, and of Hermine Straatman; and the grandson of Eugene van Dievoet and Hortense Poelaert (sister of the famous architect Joseph Poelaert).

Formation

After a formation at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels where he was school-fellow of Paul Cauchie, he opened his workshop of decoration and started to collaborate with many architects Art nouveau or late eclecticism like, Victor Boelens, De Kock, Georges Delcoigne, Edouard Elle, Guillaume Low, Georges Peereboom, Edouard Pelseneer, Albert Roosenboom, Fernand Symons, Joseph Van Neck, Armand Van Waesberghe, or his brother Henri Van Dievoet.

He settled initially rue Faider, then at the 91, rue Souveraine at Ixelles, Brussels.

Its style is characterized mainly by the use of stylized floral elements.

Works

He is the author of many decoration in Sgraffitis at Brussels and his surroundings and in Wallonia, inspirated by the Arts and Crafts Movement, for example those of the "Maison dorée" (Gold House) in the town of Charleroi.

He is also the author also the Sgraffite decorating those monuments:

  • the primary School of Drogenbos (1902)
  • town House of Dilbeek (1903)
  • college Saint-Alexis college Geel (1900)
  • the churche of Erps-Kwerps (1898)
  • the church of Machelen (1908)
  • villa “les Sorbiers” in the Park of Genval, (decoration of sorbs, architect and owner Fernand Symons, 1904)
  • the Escoyez castle by the architect Sonneville architect of Tournai, in 1904, .

He is also the author of paintings and watercolours.

The Royal Library of Belgium, Albertine, Prints Cabinet, preserves of him an etching entitled “Head of Lion”, (reference:F 41265).

Bibliography

The house of Gabriel Van Dievoet at 91, rue Souveraine Ixelles.
  • Maurice Culot, Anne-Marie Pirlot, Art Nouveau, Bruxelles, AAM, 2005, pp. 16, 35, 90, 91.
  • Simone De Boeck, "GABRIEL VAN DIEVOET" dans, 50 Artistes autour de Victor Horta, Bruxelles, 1996, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, tome II.
  • Simone De Boeck, "GABRIEL VAN DIEVOET", dans, Sgraffito, n°9, Bruxelles, 1997, p.13 à 16.
  • Simone De Boeck, "Fernand Symons, un architecte trop peu connu", 2e partie, dans, Sgraffito, Bruxelles, n°37, 2004, p. 22.
  • Fanny Bouvry, "Famille van Dievoet. Artistes, de père en fils", dans, Le Vif-L'Express, n° 2903, 21-27 novembre 2008, p. 121.
  • Façades Art nouveau. Les plus beaux sgraffites de Bruxelles. Façades Art nouveau. Les plus beaux sgraffites de Bruxelles, Patricia D'Oreye, photos Lantent Brandajs, préface Maurice Culot, Bruxelles, 2005.
  • Alice Delvaille et Philippe Chavanne, L'Art Nouveau dans le Namurois et en Brabant Wallon, Alleur, 2006.
  • Éric Hennaut, Walter Schudel, Jos Vandenbreeden, Linda Van Santvoort, Liliane Liesens, Marie Demanet, Les Sgraffites à Bruxelles, Fondation Roi Baudouin, Bruxelles, 1994, pp. 9, 57, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, arrière de couverture.
  • Éric Hennaut, Liliane Liesens, L'avant-garde belge. Architecture 1880-1900, Bruges, 1995, Stichting Sint-Jan et Archives d'Architecture Moderne, pp. 36, 37,
  • Éric Hennaut, Maurice Culot, La façade Art Nouveau à Bruxelles, Bruxelles, 2005, AAM, pp. 42, 45, 47.
  • Caroline Mierop, L'avenue Louise, collection Bruxelles, ville d'art et d'histoire, Bruxelles, 1997, pp. 20 et 21.
  • Benoît Schoonbroodt, Artistes belges de l'Art nouveau (1890-1914), publié aux éditions Racine, Bruxelles, 2008, pp. 38–39, 80-85.
  • dir. Anne Van Loo, Dictionnaire de l'Architecture en Belgique de 1830 à nos jours, Anvers, Fonds Mercator, 2003, pp. 40, 562, ill. p. 561.
  • Catalogue des Collections, Bruxelles, Archives d'Architecture Moderne, 1999, tome II, p.282 à 289, et illustrations pp. 29 à 33.
  • Les mots de la Maison, volume II, L'intérieur, Archives d'Architecture Moderne, Bruxelles, 1995, pp. 56, 57, 60, 61 (projets aquarellés de Gabriel van Dievoet).
  • Revue Sgraffito, n° 50, avril-mai-juin 2007, "Un patrimoine en péril", "avenue de Visé", p. 19. (Concerne la "Villa Ricordo").

Any works of Gabriel Van Dievoet

  • Gabriel van Dievoet in his atelier, 1903.

  • Rouge-Cloître near Brussels, oil 22,5cm-13,7cm.

  • 1896 pond.

  • 1895, village, watercolour.

  • Watercolour, Rouge Cloître.

  • 1896, little road in a village.

  • Hunting scene, project of fresco.

  • Façade of pharmacy Weil, Brussels, sgraffiti.

  • 1896, pond, watercolour.

  • Project of a page for "Le Journal, 1894.

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Sources

French Wikipedia: fr:Gabriel van Dievoet

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