Edmond DUBRUNFAUT

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  Center for the Restoration of the Tournai Tapestry 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 mural arts of Tournai, a true conservatory of tapestry in Wallonia. Its style, figurative, uses strong color contrasts; it is often very inspired by animals and nature (as Perrot, for example: the artist showed a strong tendency toward ornithology).

A classic subject; however, the title nonetheless refers to an anthropomorphizing of relationships between animals—thus expressing the artist's social concerns (utopian?)