macabere grafiek

de grafiek van Victor Delhez (1902-1985)
Victor DelhezVictor Delhez was one of seven children. He studied at Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1916-1918 and at the University of Leuven from 1918-1923, graduating as an agronomist with chemistry as his primary subject. Delhez began exhibiting caricatures and surrealist work while in college. Taking up a role as manager of his family’s car company, he continued his artistic interests, publishing a series of prints in 1925.
 
In 1925, Delhez’s parents died in a road accident, and he subsequently moved to Argentina, working as a draughtsman and architect, and contractor, in Buenos Aires from 1926-1933. He then moved to Bolivia, before moving back to Argentina in 1940. He settled in Chacras de Coria and took a post as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, National University of Cuyo. While in Bolivia, Delhez produced a set of forty illustrations for the Gospels, and twenty-one for Lord Dunsany’s “A Dreamer’s Tales”, while in correspondence with the author.
Victor Delhez
Victor Delhez illustratie uit de Apocalyps
Delhez became better known from the 1930′s, with what is considered to be his best work beginning during his time in Bolivia. Later themes included self-portraits, other parts of the Bible, notably the Book of Apocalypse, Dostoevsky and architecture. He was exhibited in cities such as Brussels (his sisters arranging a show of his “A Dreamer’s Tales” works), Antwerp (Plantin-Moretus), the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. Victor Delhez tended to produce short runs from his blocks, which has left some of his work scarce in original form.
 
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Victor Delhez
De voorstellingen van Victor Delhez hebben meestal iets sinisters en beklemmends. Door het lage en nabij gekozen blikpunt hebben de drukpersen op in de bovenstaande prent de uitstraling gekregen van martelwerktuigen.

prints van Victor Delhez bij William Carl Fine Prints