Henri Jacques Edouard Evenepoel (1872 - 1899)
Henri Jacques Edouard Evenepoel
Henri-Jacques-Edouard Evenepoel was a Belgian artist whose most important works are associated with Fauvism. The artist debuted a portrait of his cousin (Louise in Mourning) at the 1894 Salon des Artistes Français. He showed four portraits at the Salon du Champ-de-Mars in 1895 and continued to exhibit there until his death. His first solo exhibition came at the Brussels Cercle Artistique (December 1897 – January 1898). Family and friends were the artist's preferred subjects; his full-length portraits, often against a neutral background, show the influence of Édouard Manet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. His Parisian scenes were influenced by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Jean-Louis Forain. Though his early scenes had a somber palette, his paintings while in Algeria (where he first wintered during his solo exhibition) were very different in style, anticipating the bold colours of Fauvism (e.g., Orange Market, Blidah).
| Date and place of birt: | 3 october 1872, Nice, France |
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| Date and place of death: | 27 december 1899, Paris, France |
| Nationality: | France |
| Period of activity: | XIX century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Draftsman, Engraver, Genre painter, Graphic artist, Landscape painter, Marine painter, Painter, Portraitist, Posterist |
| Genre: | Cityscape, Flower still life, Genre art, Landscape painting, Marine art, Nude art, Portrait, Self-portrait, Still life |
| Art style: | Fauvism |
| Technique: | Charcoal, Color pencil, Etching, Hand graphic, Lithography, Oil, Oil on canvas, Oil on panel, Pencil |
