Edmond DUBRUNFAUT

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Aubusson tapestry woven in the Four workshop.
With its ribbon, No. EA.
Circa 1975.

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).

At the end of his career, Dubrunfaut expressed himself in a magical style (with sharp forms close to Marc Petit), and whose theme (hummingbirds and exotic plants) refers to Lurçat of the 50s.