Charles Eyck

Charles Hubert Eyck (24 March 1897 – 2 August 1983) was a Dutch visual artist. Together with Henri Jonas and Joep Nicolas, he was a pioneer of the Limburg School.

Charles Eyck
Portrait picture the artist looking out from a window
Eyck in 1953
Born(1897-03-24)24 March 1897
Meerssen, Limburg, Netherlands
Died2 August 1983(1983-08-02) (aged 86)
Schimmert, Limburg, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
EducationRijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam
Known forPainting
MovementExpressionism

Life and work
Limburgs bevrijdingsmonument on the Koningsplein in Maastricht
Sculpture Het Verkeer in the station hall of Utrecht Centraal. The statue was unveiled in 1939 but only placed in 1940. It was a gift from the Personeelraad to the management of the NS in honor of the centenary of the NS[1]

Charles Eyck was born in 1897 in Meerssen.[2] He received his training at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. He had previously started as a pottery painter[2] at the ceramics factory Céramique in Maastricht.[3] In 1922, he won the Prix de Rome. After short stays in Sweden, Curaçao, southern France, Amsterdam, Clamart and Utrecht, he settled in Schimmert.

Initially, his work was expressionistic in style. He was later criticized for persisting in a more or less consistent religious style. Partly because of these criticisms and his increasing deafness, he lived more and more in seclusion in the house "Ravensbos" in Schimmert, which he designed himself.

After the unveiling of the Bevrijdingsraam in the Sint Janskerk in Gouda (1947), Eyck was presented with the decoration of a Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He returned the award almost twenty years later, because he could not agree with a marriage between Princess Beatrix and the German Claus.[4]

Charles Eyck died at the age of 86.[5]

Works

References
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  1. Muurvast & Gebeiteld - Beeldhouwkunst in de bouw 1840 - 1940, Ype Koopmans, 1997 NAi Uitgevers ISBN 9056620762
  2. Jonkergouw, A.E.L. (1993). Historisch Jaarboek voor het Land van Zwentibold - 1993 (in Dutch). Stichting Historisch Jaarboek voor het Land van Zwentibold. p. 114. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  3. Tegeltableau van Charles Eyck in rubberfabriek Ceylon in Maastricht teruggevonden. NOS 7 November 2021
  4. "CHARLES EYCK stuurt onderscheiding terug Protest legen huwelijk Beatrix", Amigoe di Curaçao, 5 februari 1966; "Schilder zendt „lintje” terug", Friese koerier, 7 February 1966.
  5. Centraal Museum (Utrecht, Netherlands) (2009). Zijlmans, Kitty; Knol, Meta; Raben, Remco (eds.). Beyond the Dutch Indonesia, the Netherlands, and the Visual Arts from 1900 Until Now. KIT Publishers. p. 107. ISBN 9789460220593. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  6. "Charles Eyck schiep kunstwerk voor R.K. Zeemanshuis". Amigoe. 10 April 1953. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  7. "Charles Eyck voltooit tegelpaneel voor Elisabeth ziekenhuis". Amigoe. 31 July 1954. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
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