Jean Delville [SEP] date of death
Jean Delville
Jean Delville (19 January 1867, Leuven – 19 January 1953, Forest, Brussels) was a Belgian symbolist painter, author, poet, polemicist, teacher, and Theosophist. Delville was the leading exponent of the Belgian Idealist movement in art during the 1890s. He held, throughout his life, the belief that art should be the expression of a higher spiritual truth and that it should be based on the principle of Ideal, or spiritual Beauty. He executed a great number of paintings during his active career
death metal group Morbid Angel also used it for the cover of their second album, "Blessed Are the Sick" (1991).
Sources.
- Brendan Cole, "Jean Delville, Art between Nature and the Absolute", Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Brendan Cole, 'Jean Delville and the Belgian Avant-Garde : Anti-Materialist Polemics for 'un art annonciateur des spiritualités futures', in Rosina Neginsky (ed.), "Symbolism. Its Origins and Its Consequences"