![]() Artistic careerĭelville created works of art with great technical skill and originality. It was completed in 1924 and is now displayed in the Palais de Justice in Paris. His monumental work Les Forces, 5 metres by 8 metres in size, depicts two enormous spiritual armies in conflict. He continued painting, with symbolic warfare as a theme. The artist turned his attention to Belgian expatriates and refugees, and sold a volume called Belgian Art in Exile to raise money for charities. Winning the Prix de Rome in 1895 greatly improved his fortunes and refined his style, but for many years he had to supplement his irregular income from painting with teaching positions.ĭuring the tumult of the First World War, the Delville family lived in London. By the mid-1890s, he had married and begun a family. ![]() During his first years as an artist, he lived in poverty at St. After two years of study, he was awarded prizes for composition, painting and drawing from life. ![]() ![]() As a boy he was not interested in school, so at age 15 his parents allowed him to enroll in the School of Arts at Brussels. Jean Delville was born in Louvain, Belgium on January 19, 1867.
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