Flowers
Tapestry woven at the CRECIT.
With his bolduc.
1999.
Edmond Dubrunfaut can perhaps be considered the great renovator of Belgian tapestry in the 20th century. He founded a weaving studio in Tournai as early as 1942, then created in 1947 the Tapestry Renovation Centre 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 Foundation for Tapestry, Textile Arts and Wall Arts of Tournai, a true conservatory of tapestry in Wallonia. His style, figurative and using strong contrasts of colors often, is greatly inspired by animals and nature (as with Perrot, for example; the artist had a strong predilection for ornithology).
Dubrunfaut's late tapestry, in a decorative vein continually renewed, woven at the CRECIT in Tournai, where the artist provided numerous cartoons to be woven.
Bibliography :
Exhibition catalogue Dubrunfaut et la renaissance de la tapisserie, tableaux, dessins, peintures, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, 1982-1983.
