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, véritable conservatoire de la tapisserie en Wallonie. Son style, figuratif, usant de forts contrastes de couleurs souvent, est très inspiré par les animaux et la nature (comme Perrot par exemple, l’artiste a un fort tropisme pour l’ornithologie).
Dubrunfaut's late Tapestry, in the decorative vein always renewed, woven at the CRECIT in Tournai, where the artist produced many 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.
