Auguste Levêque Explained

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.

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  1. Web site: Salon d'Art Idéaliste . 26 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928115213/http://www.kettererkunst.com/dict/salon-dart-idealiste.shtml . 28 September 2011 . dead .