Throughout his life, Adrien-Joseph Heymans worked in the vicinity of Kalmthout, in the Kempen area in Antwerp Province. After the example of Hippolyte Boulenger and artists who worked around the village of Tervuren near Brussels, a group of like-minded landscape artists came together in Kalmthout in the 1870s. They shared a predilection for painting in the open air and strove for an atmospheric depiction of nature. Their greyish landscapes did not reflect nature, however. On the contrary, these artists saw nature as a reflection of their own mood. We also see this melancholy vision in the early work of Adrien-Joseph Heymans, as in Sunset on the Heath.
| Artist |
Adrien Joseph Heymans
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| Title | Sunset on the Heath |
| Date | ca. 1877 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Location | Kempen TGN |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: A.J. Heymans |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1877-B |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
salon Ghent 1877 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1877-B |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/200/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus | 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
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natural phenomena
Iconclass
24A sun as celestial body Iconclass 24A2 sunset Iconclass 24A8 sunlight Iconclass 25F animals Iconclass 25F2 mammals Iconclass 25G4(HEATHER) plants and herbs (HEATHER) Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H16 plain Iconclass 25H18 cultivated land Iconclass 25H2143 pond, pool Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 46A14 farmers Iconclass 46AA14 farmers - AA - female farmer, farmer's wife Iconclass 46C14 animal traction, animal-drawn vehicle (carriage etc.) Iconclass 46C145 (farm) wagon, freight wagon, cart Iconclass 47I1 agriculture Iconclass 47I2112 cow Iconclass 61D(BELGIUM) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (BELGIUM) Iconclass 61D(CAMPINE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (CAMPINE) Iconclass |
| School / Style | realism (artistic form of expression) AAT |
| Adrien-Joseph Heymans (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 81) |
| Het impressionisme en het fauvisme in België = L'impressionisme et le fauvisme en Belgique (tentoonstelling Elsene, Museum van Elsene, 12.10 - 16.12.1990) / Serge Goyens de Heusch. - Elsene (Brussel) : Museum van Elsene, 1990 (p. 46-47, cat. 12 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 184-185 (ill.)) |
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