Edmond DUBRUNFAUT

Edmond Dubrunfaut can be considered 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 taught monumental art at the Mons Academy of Fine Arts from 1947 to 1978, then participated in the creation of the Tournai Foundation for Tapestry, Textile Arts, and Mural Arts, a true 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 interest in ornithology).

The squirrel is one of the recurring themes in the artist's work (cf. « Evening Fires », « Squirrels and Volatiles »…): here, the tails make a decorative motif in themselves.