Amédée Lynen

Amédée Ernest Lynen (1852–1938), who often signed his works Am. Lynen, was a Belgian painter, illustrator and writer. In 1880, he was one of the founders of the artistic group L'Essor after it had separated from the academy, and he co-founded its successor Pour l'Art in 1892.[1] In 1895, he founded the "Compagnie du Diable-au-corps", an artistic association which organised evenings with theatre and poetry, and which existed at least until 1899.[2] It also published a satirical newspaper, Le Diable au Corps. In 1903, two works on paper were bought by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.[3] In 1930, a retrospective of his works was organised by the Cercle Artistique et Littéraire in the Vauxhall, Brussels.

Official poster for the 1902 Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges

Works
Poster for the inauguration of the Port of Bruges-Zeebrugge in 1907
Design by Lynen for the heading of a magazine La vie moderne Les sports
  • Wrote and illustrated Sébastien Vranckx, peintre de moeurs escarmouches et combats (1901, published by Lamertin)
  • Wrote and illustrated Le jaquemart de la tour du pré-rouge (1902, published by Lamertin)
  • Wrote and illustrated L'Oeuvre de Maîtrise (1918, Goossens), with a foreword by Georges Eekhoud
  • The poster for the 1902 Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges
  • Posters for exhibitions, performances and festivities

Illustrations for books

Among the many works with one or more illustrations by Lynen can be cited:

  • Le Théâtrè a la Maison by Émile Leclercq
  • La femme de Roland by Pierre Elzéar (1882, published by Kistemaeckers)
  • First impression of À vau-l'eau by Joris-Karl Huysmans (1882, published by Kistemaeckers)
  • Contes érotico-philosophiques by Antoine Aimé Beaufort d'Auberval (1882, published by Kistemaeckers)
  • Au pays de Manneken-Pis by Theodore Hannon (1883, published by Kistemaeckers)
  • Le cheveu, conte moral by Simon Coiffier de Moret (1883, published by Kistemaeckers)
  • Noëls fin-de-siècle by Theodore Hannon (1892)
  • Guide de la section de l'état indépendant du Congo à l'exposition de Bruxelles-Tervueren en 1897
  • Les vertus bourgeoises by Henri Carton de Wiart (1912, Van Oest)
  • More than 250 illustrations for The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak by Charles De Coster (1914, published by Lamertin)
  • L'Enseignement Professionnel En Belgique, 1921

Notes
  1. "Saint-Josse-ten-Noode: Rue Amédée Lynen" (in French). Irismonument.be.
  2. Conradt, Marcel (2008). Histoire des theatres a Liege (1850 a 1975), Volume 3 (in French). CEFAL. p. 269. ISBN 9782871302537.
  3. Van Kalck, Michèle (2003). De Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België: twee eeuwen geschiedenis (in Dutch). Lannoo. p. 202. ISBN 9789020951844.
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