Jules Rambo (1896-1974) - Kunstenares aan het werk

Oil on panel by Jules Rambo. Artist at work. Perfect condition. Signed lower right. Panel size: 48 x 61 cm. Framed: 75 x 88 cm. Shipping available.

RAMBO Jules
Jules Rambo, 1896-1973. Post-Impressionist painter of landscapes, cityscapes, interiors, harbors, figures, portraits, and flowers. He painted with a powerful style and a bright palette.

Additional information (from a text by Stefan Van den Bossche):
Rambo's paintings are luminist and post-impressionist, executed with a consistent, controlled theme and a remarkably nuanced yet somewhat melancholic color palette. The artist acted from the margins, remaining in the shadows for various reasons, secluding himself from the artistic scene and preferring to escape the numerous societies and major events that graced the Belgian capital. In 1956, he exhibited at the Galerie Rubens in Brussels, and in 1945, 1947, and 1950, he exhibited at the renowned Galerie Giroux in Brussels' Koningsstraat. Rambo sought the intimacy and tranquility of harbors, landscapes, or church interiors, paying attention to certain sacred elements and ornaments within them. Faith offered him a certain sense of security and solace in a bleak, alcoholic, and marginal existence. Jules Rambo's best work falls between 1920 and 1940. The artist painted several of his cityscapes and harbor scenes, the aforementioned still lifes—beautifully stylized flowers, usually offset by a bottle or glass—and church interiors. Sometimes works from the same period even form a kind of sequence of scenes, a visualized narrative. Rambo's portraits, on the other hand, exude severity and a lack of vital stability. They are clearly influenced by similar work by the Brabant Impressionists and Fauvists, particularly Anne-Pierre de Kat, Auguste Oleffe, Jehan Frison, Rodolphe Strébelle, and Ramah.