Theo van rysselberghe biography of christopher

Van Rysselberghe first exhibited at the Salon in Brussels in The next year he won a travelling scholarship and, following in the footsteps of Portaels, visited Spain and Morocco. Georges Seurat Camille Pissarro Henri Cross Paul Signac French, Maximilien Luce Charles Angrand Because of his growing ties with the Parisian art scene, Octave Maus sent Rysselberghe as a talent scout to Paris to look out for new talent for the next exhibitions of Les XX.

He discovered the pointillist technique when he saw Georges Seurat 's La Grande Jatte at the eighth impressionist exhibition in Paris in Seurat was invited to the next salon of Les XX in Brussels in But there his La Grande Jatte was heavily criticized by the art critics as "incomprehensible gibberish applied to the noble art of painting".

This brought him sometimes in heavy conflict with James Ensor.

Theo van rysselberghe biography of christopher

In van Rysselberghe already experimented with this style, as can be seen in his Madame Oscar Ghysbrecht and Madame Edmond Picard He appreciated especially the talent of Toulouse-Lautrec. During these three months he made many color pencil sketches. He also drew a portrait of the sultan Hassan I. Back in Brussels, he started painting his impressions, relying on his photos, notes and sketches.

His Nomad encampment is probably his first neo-impressionist work. In the Caravan in the mountains past Schliat , the influence of Seurat is unmistakable. These are among the rare pointillist paintings of Morocco. When he had finished these paintings, he stopped completely with this Moroccan period in his life. This time he used merely points in the portrait.

She would later marry the sculptor Paul Dubois. In that period he made many Neo-impressionistic portraits, such as the portrait of his wife Maria and their daughter Elisabeth. He had married Marie Monnom in They went on their honeymoon to the south of England and then to Brittany. This would also result in a number of Neo-impressionistic paintings.

Apart from the portraits, he also painted in this period many landscapes and seascapes : "Dunes in Cadzand" , "The rainbow" In the he made long journeys to Athens and Constantinople, Hungary, Romania, Moscow and Saint Petersburg in order to make posters for the "Compagnie des Wagons-lits". One famous work is the poster "Royal Palace Hotel, Ostende" In , van Rysselberghe moved to Paris.

Slowly he abandoned the use of dots in his portraits and landscapes and began applying somewhat broader strokes : The hippodrome at Boulogne-sur-Mer and the group portrait Summer afternoon , Young women on the beach , Young girl with straw bonnet , and The Reading with the contrast between red and blue colours. After all his years as talent scout for Octave Maus, van Rysselberghe made the mistake of his life: he didn't recognize the talent of the young Pablo Picasso who was in his Blue Period at that time.

He found his works "ugly and uninteresting". After , his pointillist technique, which he had used for so many years, became more relaxed and after he abandoned it completely. His strokes had become longer and he used more often vivid colours and more intense contrasts, or softened hues. As one of the leading neo-impressionists, a significant portion of van Rysselberghe's work remains in private collections.

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