Amédée Lynen

Official poster for the 1902 Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges

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.

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.

External links

• Media related to Amédée Lynen at Wikimedia Commons