Edmond DUBRUNFAUT,

Butterfly

Aubusson tapestry woven by the Four manufactory.
N°3/6.
c. 1970.

Edmond Dubrunfaut may be considered the great renovator of Belgian tapestry in the 20th century. He founded a weaving workshop in Tournai as early as 1942, then in 1947 created the  Tapestry Renovation Center of Tournai in Tournai. It will supply, for various Belgian workshops (Chaudoir, de Wit, ...), numerous cartoons intended in particular to decorate Belgian embassies across the world. In addition, Dubrunfaut, from 1947 to 1978, taught monumental art at theAcademy of Fine Arts of Mons , then, in 1979, took part in the creation of the Tournai Foundation for Tapestry, Textile Arts and Wall Arts, a true conservatory of tapestry in Wallonia. Its style, figurative and using strong contrasts of colors often, is very inspired by animals and nature (as with Perrot, for example: the artist has a strong predilection for ornithology).

Dubrunfaut, not content with having been woven in Belgium as well, provided numerous cartoons to the Four manufactory in Aubusson: birds or butterflies share space with an exotic flora in tangy colors, on midnight-blue grounds.