George Minne

Born: Ghent, 30 August 1866

Died: Laethem-Saint-Martin, 18 February 1941

Nationality: Belgian


Works by this Artist

Kneeling Youth
George Minne, 1898

Studies

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Ghent (1879–86); Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (1895)

Career

1889 – illustrates Grégoire Le Roy’s Mon Coeur pleure d’autrefois (Weeping for Other Days, Paris, 1889) and Maurice Maeterlinck’s Serres chaudes (Hot House Blooms, Paris, 1889)
1890 – exhibits at Les XX
1892 – exhibits at Salon de la Rose+Croix (Paris)
1899 – exhibits designs for Fountain of Kneeling Figures

Minne exhibited regularly with the Vienna and Berlin Secessions and at the Biennales in Venice

Important Artworks

Fountain of Kneeling Figures, 1906-07 (Museum Folkwang, Essen)

Readings

Pudles, Lynne. “The Symbolist Work of Georges Minne,” Art Journal, vol. 45, no. 2 (Summer 1985): 120-9

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