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 . 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 Wall 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 tropism for 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.