Jules Schmalzigaug
Jules Schmalzigaug (1882 or 1883 in Antwerp – 13 May 1917 in The Hague) was a Belgian futurist painter.
Biography
His well-to-do family came from Germany and lived in Antwerp. From the age of 16, Schmalzigaug travelled extensively. In 1905–1906 he made a tour of Italy, where he was especially impressed and influenced by Venice.
Returning to Antwerp, he became a secretary to the art society of Kunst van Heden/L'Art Contemporain, and worked on the organisation of international exhibitions. Between 1910 and 1912 he lived mainly in Paris. There he had the opportunity to see the exhibition of Italian futurists in 1912, and, impressed, soon decided to move to Italy.
His time in Italy between 1912 and 1914 was the happiest and most active part of his life and art. In 1914 he took part in the international exhibition of futurists in Rome. His style developed towards the abstract.
In 1914, he returned to Antwerp. He was declared unfit for military service on health grounds; after the start of World War I, he moved to The Hague in neutral Netherlands.
He felt lonely in the isolated country; he longed for the sunny Venice and the whirring international life of artists.
In his art he returned to figurative painting, but his works from this period did not reach the previous level of success. He fell into depression, and in 1917 eventually committed suicide.
Legacy
The British art historian Michael Palmer has written that Schmalzigaug has not received great acknowledgement in his life neither in Belgium, nor internationally, but in spite of this he belonged to the most original and most talented modern Belgian artists of his time.
His works can be seen in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, and the Provincial Museum of Modern Art [nl] in Ostend.
Sources
- Phil Mertens, "Jules Schmalzigaug, 1882-1917", Antwerpen en Brussel, 1984
- Michael Palmer, "Van Ensor tot Magritte, Belgische kunst 1880 - 1940", Brussel en Tielt, 2002
External links
- Jules Schmalzigaug, un futuriste belge (exhibition organised by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
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- Giacomo Balla (list of works)
- "Barbara"
- Umberto Boccioni
- Anton Bragaglia
- Benedetta Cappa
- Carlo Carrà
- Franco Casavola
- Nikolay Diulgheroff
- Luigi De Giudici
- F. T. Marinetti
- Marisa Mori
- Bruno Munari
- Aldo Palazzeschi
- Ugo Piatti
- Francesco Balilla Pratella
- Antonio Russolo
- Luigi Russolo
- Antonio Sant'Elia
- Gino Severini
- Ardengo Soffici
Cubo-Futurists
- Alexander Archipenko
- Nikolai Aseev
- Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine
- Lilya Brik
- Osip Brik
- Alexander Bogomazov
- Kseniya Boguslavskaya
- David Burliuk
- Vladimir Burliuk
- Joseph Chaikov
- Aleksandra Ekster
- Nina Genke-Meller
- Natalia Goncharova
- Elena Guro
- Vasily Kamensky
- Velimir Khlebnikov
- Ivan Kliun
- Aleksei Kruchyonykh
- Nikolai Kulbin
- Mikhail Larionov
- Aristarkh Lentulov
- El Lissitzky
- Benedikt Livshits
- Kazimir Malevich
- Mikhail Matyushin
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Boris Pasternak
- Victor Palmov
- Lyubov Popova
- Ivan Puni
- Olga Rozanova
- Vadim Shershenevich
- Nadezhda Udaltsova
- Ilia Zdanevich (Iliazd)
and inventions
- Anti-neutral suit
- Intonarumori
- Italian futurism in cinema
- Futurist architecture
- Futurist cooking
- Futurist literature
- Futurist music
- Noise music
- Zaum
- Abstract Speed + Sound
- Antigrazioso
- The Art of Noises
- BÏF§ZF+18
- The City Rises
- Cyclist
- Development of a Bottle in Space
- Drama in the Futurists' Cabaret No. 13
- Dyr bul shchyl
- Dynamism of a Car
- Dynamism of a Cyclist
- Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
- Dynamism of a Human Body: Boxer
- Dynamism of a Soccer Player
- Dynamism of a Speeding Horse + Houses
- Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto
- The Knifegrinder
- Girl Running on a Balcony
- The Hand of the Violinist
- Lacerba
- Manifesto of Futurism
- Manifesto of Futurist Musicians
- Mercury Passing Before the Sun
- The Poem of the End
- Poesia
- The Street Enters the House
- The Street Light
- Thaïs
- Tango with Cows
- Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
- Universal War
- Victory over the Sun
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Zangezi
- Zang Tumb Tumb
- Agitprop
- Agit-train
- Constructivism
- Dadaism
- Donkey's Tail
- Grosvenor School
- Jack of Diamonds
- Neo-Primitivism
- Oberiu
- Panfuturism
- Precisionism
- Rayonism
- Soyuz Molodyozhi
- Suprematism
- Supremus
- Vorticism