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Woven tapestry at CRECIT.
With its label.
1999.
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 decorate Belgian embassies around the world. In addition, Dubrunfaut taught monumental art at the Mons Academy of Fine Arts from 1947 to 1978, and then 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 affinity for ornithology).
Late tapestry by Dubrunfaut, with a constantly renewed decorative vein, woven at CRECIT in Tournai, where the artist provided numerous cartoons to weave.
Bibliography :
Exhibition catalog Dubrunfaut and the renaissance of tapestry, paintings, drawings, paintings, Museum of Fine Arts Mons, 1982-1983.
