Georges Emile Lebacq
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Georges-Emile Lebacq was a Belgian
Belgium
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 painter
Painting
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 born in Jemappes
Jemappes
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 (Hainaut) the 26th September 1876 and died in Bruges
Bruges
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 the 4th August 1950.

Biography

A Post-Impressionist
Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet. Fry used the term when he organized the 1910 exhibition Manet and Post-Impressionism...

 and Impressionist painter, Lebacq was alternately a watercolourist, pastel
Pastel
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list and portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...

, landscape
Landscape art
Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

 and still life
Still life
A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

 painter. He also painted church interiors (stained-glass windows and paintings). Certain art-work as "Lumière d'été à Vaux-le-Pénil" or "Le Repos en Terrasse" are Impressionist. He was a student at the Académie Julian
Académie Julian
The Académie Julian was an art school in Paris, France.Rodolphe Julian established the Académie Julian in 1868 at the Passage des Panoramas, as a private studio school for art students. The Académie Julian not only prepared students to the exams at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, but offered...

 at Paris
Paris
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 in 1920 and worked mainly in France
France
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.

Work

Most of the paintings of Lebacq are in private collections. Until recently, paintings of this artist were rather rare on the Art market. Emma Lebacq, wife of the painter, was a whealthy person. So she granted him for devoting body and soul to the painting but not to trade it.

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