부산대학교 도서관

(b Comines, Aug 4, 1825; d Brussels, March 30, 1870). Belgian painter, printmaker and designer. In 1833 he settled in Brussels, where he was a pupil of François-Joseph Navez in 1843 and was advised by J. B. Van Eycken (1809–53), winning the Prix de Rome at the Brussels Academy in 1850. At that time he was painting historical compositions set mainly in the Middle Ages, which had absorbed the flavour of Parisian Romanticism. His copies of the live model and the Antique were unsuccessful, and he distinguished himself only in competitions for good composition. In 1851 De Groux went to Düsseldorf, which encouraged him to adopt realist subjects and anti-classical ideas. During a particularly fertile period, which began around 1853, he produced pictures in predominantly grey and brown tones showing the grim existence of society’s poorest classes: for example The Drunkard (1853) and Grace (1861; both Brussels, Mus. A. Mod.). He also portrayed the life of the soldier (...