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Snow-covered Bascule Bridge

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 65.5 x 80.5 cm
  • Inv. 1928-AR

© SABAM Belgium 2023

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Pierre Paulus was the leading illustrator of the industrial world of Wallonia. From 1906 he worked almost exclusively in the surroundings of Charleroi, where he depicted the mines, the factories and the canals with their heavy cargo boats. His style of painting is similar to that of such Brabant Fauvists as Rik Wouters and Auguste Oleffe, both of whom he knew from his childhood years. However, his palette is more sombre and heavy with melancholy. His industrial landscapes do not portray the triumph of industry populated with heroic workers but the depression of a grey world enveloped in clouds of smoke, whose power is fading and where poverty prevails.

Artist

Pierre Paulus RKD
Châtelet 1881 - Saint-Gilles (Brussels) 1959
painters (artists)AAT

Title Snow-covered Bascule Bridge
Period 20th century
Location Brussels TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom right: P. Paulus
inscription on the reverse: Pont Levis / (neige) / Pierre Paulus / Bruxelles
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1928-AR
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1928-AR
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/1113/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300015571 cityscapes (representations) AAT
25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 23D41 winter, 'Hyems'; 'Inverno' (Ripa) Iconclass
25D32 miner Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass
25H22 canal Iconclass
26D1 snow Iconclass
36B environmental destruction Iconclass
36B1 environmental pollution Iconclass
41B162 smoke Iconclass
46C112 bridge Iconclass
46C21 ships (in general) Iconclass
46C223 harbour Iconclass
46C2231 pier, quay, wharf Iconclass
46C23 boat propelled by man or animal Iconclass
46C256 freight vessel Iconclass
47A1 exterior of industrial structures, factories Iconclass
47A12 factory-building Iconclass
47A121 smoke-stack Iconclass
School / Style Expressionist (style) AAT
Modernist AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 116)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 257 (ill.))
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