JEAN DELVILLE
The angel of splendour by Jean Delville, 1894.
Born in Louvain, Belgium in 1867, Jean Delville was an idealist, mystic-occultist who believed in the redemptive power of spiritual art to repair the materialistic social ills of modernity. Unique in the development of his aesthetic and ideology, Delville objected to the pessimistic world view of his French symbolist contemporaries and attempted to spiritually uplift society through art which transgressed the boundaries of material reality. With supreme individuality, Delville harmonized the Natural, the Human and the Divine in art that embodied Idealism and his Mission de l’Art, thus asserting the role of artist as spiritual visionary.
The Fin-De-Siecle Museum, Brussels.
JEAN DELVILLE
The angel of splendour by Jean Delville, 1894.
Born in Louvain, Belgium in 1867, Jean Delville was an idealist, mystic-occultist who believed in the redemptive power of spiritual art to repair the materialistic social ills of modernity. Unique in the development of his aesthetic and ideology, Delville objected to the pessimistic world view of his French symbolist contemporaries and attempted to spiritually uplift society through art which transgressed the boundaries of material reality. With supreme individuality, Delville harmonized the Natural, the Human and the Divine in art that embodied Idealism and his Mission de l’Art, thus asserting the role of artist as spiritual visionary.
The Fin-De-Siecle Museum, Brussels.