Project Description
Oil on panel
Dimensions : 35 cm x 45 cm
Signed lower right R.Prinz
Lively village Prinz Renée
Renée Prince (Antwerp 1883 – Namur 1973)
Post-Impressionist painter and watercolourist of landscapes Ardennes, dead natures, flowers and portraits. Practice briefly sculpture.
Born in Antwerp Liege Parents, including a senior officer father, Renée Prinz was, over the family tribulations, student Academies of Mons first, Antwerp then then finally Namur from 1905.
She will be student Nicolas Vanden Eden and Desire Merny, through which she may contract the landscaping virus, although we also wrote portraits and still lifes (the City has). Thus instilled in him a certain tradition, because Merny was rather cautious vis-à-vis the Modern Art.
She will make her career in Namur but its beginnings coincide with breaks in the valleys of the Ourthe and Semois, and in Antwerp Campine.
Later, the exodus of May 1940.
This pushes her on the roads of France where she lands in Haute Garonne. Of all these trips, all these trips, it essentially bring landscapes, as after staying in the Belgian coastline 1945.
In 1947, becomes a member of the Atelier des Artistes mosans with Yvonne Gérard, Yvonne Perin, Albert Dandoy, Albert Houart, Georges Lambillotte and Louis-Marie Londot, others will join later.
Encouraged by the authorities, they had a local-workshop on the floor of the Bourse de Commerce (the current Congress Center, parade) and an annual operating subsidy.
This circle was marked by the personalities of Y. Perin et Y. Gérard. These two characters seem not to have agreed since after a few months Y. Perin seceded with part of the group. Renée Prinz did not have to accompany her since she will be going to the coast with Y. Gerard in 1953.
Then she will visit Italy (1964),Provence. She always made these trips with her gear, essentially bringing back landscapes.
Practice oil and watercolor painting, has a manly and nervous job, with large keys and a stylized invoice, Renée Prinz exhibited all over Belgium, individually or in a group.
In 1969, a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him at the Maison de la Culture in Namur, relayed two years later to the Hôtel de Ville de Marcinelle.
"We feel that this gifted artist, in possession of a very safe profession, could have been in a more stimulating context than the one she experienced in Namur in the interwar period., develop another type of research more inspired by modern expressions. » ("Plastic arts…. » p.16)
Sources : « Plastic arts in the province of Namur. 1945 – 1990 " Brussels, Municipal credit, 1991 – Arto.
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