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The Art of Jean de Bosschère

 

 

Jean de Bosschère (1878-1953) is a Belgian artists associated with the Golden Age of Illustration. His influences included traditional Flemish Schools, in addition to the Art Nouveau and Jugendstil movements.

 

The Jean de Bosschère Collection at Spirit of the Ages includes art images from some of his seminal work. As a valuable reference resource, options are also provided for purchasing a range of gifts, including reproduction prints, posters and greeting cards.

 

Jean de Bosschère indulged a variety of artistic interests throughout his life, contributing as an author, graphic artist and book illustrator (many of his illustrated books were published as limited editions).

 

The illustrations forming some of his earliest significant commissions included the monumental suites he prepared for Christmas Tales of Flanders (1917) and Folk Tales of Flanders (1918), Gulliver's Travels into Lilliput and Brobdingnag (1920), The City Curious (1920), Weird Islands (1921) and The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1922).

 

Gardner (1927) provides the following short critique of Jean de Bosschère:

 

Jean de Bosschère is an artist whose highly imaginative and individual work is greatly enjoyed

by children. His color effects, slightly suggestive of the Persian, are usual and daring but beautiful.

He possess a lively fancy and a skilled technique which make his original interpretations of the

Folk Tales of Flanders and Christmas Tales of Flanders an unending delight.

 

Comparisons with Harry Clarke or Willy Pogány would also be reasonable. Stylistically, those familiar with the work

of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Breugel the Elder may be reminded of those great Renaissance artists when considering his

earlier colour work - and that from his later career may be reminiscent of the genius of Aubrey Beardsley. Undoubtedly,

however, Jean de Bosschère - like other great illustrators - is unique.

 

We invite you to take the time to peruse the wonderful artwork from Jean de Bosschère that is included in the Collection - to view images from any one of his suites listed below, simply 'click' on the hyperlinks embedded within the titles and the images.

 

 

The Closed Door

15 images

Christmas Tales of Flanders

39 images

Folk Tales of Flanders

35 images

Gulliver's Travels into

Lilliput and Brobdingnag

14 images

 

 

The City Curious

36 images

Weird Islands

45 images

The History of Don Quixote

de la Mancha

25 images

  
 

 

 

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