GERARD PORTIELJE

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

Gerard Jozef Portielje (1856-1929) was born in Antwerp, son of Belgian Painter, Jan Portielje. His younger brother, was also a painter. He first attended a trade school until the age of 14 years, then moved to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp.

Portielje was also a professor of drawing at the Antwerp Academy. He specialized in genre scenes with mainly interior settings. The interiors represent the lifestyle and social customs of the era that was little earlier than his own times. His interiors were thematically filled in with details. 

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WILHELM SCHUBERT VAN EHRENBERG

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Sunday feature on ART of ARCHITECTURE -by Gautam Shah

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Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, was Antwerp based (1630 -1676) Flemish Painter. He specialized in architectural paintings, including of real and imaginary church interiors, Renaissance palaces and picture galleries.

Wilhelm mainly worked during 1960-1970. He collaborated with his contemporary artists to add human and animal figures. This was a common practice in 17^th C Antwerp.

Wilhelm was a romantic person, who loved to play with light and shade. He had a natural sense of entwining architectural elements to form complex imaginary Capriccio art compositions. He liked Baroque architectural spaces, but in a form gar more conservative, than his other contemporary artists.

Wilhelm created several ‘Gallery paintings’, as was fashionable in the era, depicting showing paintings, artefact scientific instruments and natural specimens.

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