Birth Date: | ca. 1866 |
Birth Place: | Nivelles, Belgium |
Death Date: | ca. 1921 |
Death Place: | Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium |
Occupation: | Painter |
Education: | Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels |
Auguste Levêque (1866 - 1921) was a Belgian painter influenced both by realism and symbolism. Levêque was also a sculptor, poet and art theoretician.
Levêque was born in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant. He studied under Jean-François Portaels at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and received the Prix Godecharle for his painting Job in 1890.
Levêque was a member of the "Salon d'Art Idéaliste", formed by Jean Delville in Brussels in 1896, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian Rose & Cross Salon. Other members of the group were Léon Frédéric, Albert Ciamberlani, Constant Montald, Emile Motte, Victor Rousseau, Armand Point and Alexandre Séon. The Salon was abandoned in 1898.[1] He died in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.