Edmond DUBRUNFAUT

Butterfly

Aubusson tapestry woven by the Four factory.
No. 3/6.
Circa 1970.

Edmond Dubrunfaut can be considered as the great renovator of Belgian tapestry in the 20th century. He founded a weaving workshop in Tournai in 1942, then created the Tournai Tapestry Renovation Centre . in 1947. He provided numerous cartoons for various Belgian workshops (Chaudoir, de Wit,…) intended to adorn Belgian embassies around the World. Moreover, Dubrunfaut, from 1947 to 1978, taught monumental art at the Mons Academy of Fine Arts, then, in 1979, participated in the creation of the Tournai Foundation for Tapestry, Textile Arts and Mural Arts, a veritable conservatory of tapestry in Wallonia. His style, figurative, often using strong color contrasts, is highly inspired by animals and nature (like Perrot, for example, the artist has a strong tropism for ornithology).

Dubrunfaut, not content with being woven in Belgium, provided numerous cartoons to the Four factory in Aubusson: birds or butterflies coexist with exotic flora in acidulous colors, against dark blue backgrounds.