Bouleaux | Birches

Bouleaux | Birches

A pleasing landscape study of two white birch trees on the side of a lake. The photograph was taken in the Campine region of Belgium and the Netherlands based on an alternate title. (see: Published)

The Campine is a natural region situated chiefly in north-eastern Belgium and parts of the south-eastern Netherlands which once consisted mainly of extensive moors, tracts of sandy heath, and wetlands. It encompasses a large northern and eastern portion of Antwerp Province and adjacent parts of Limburg in Belgium, as well as portions of the Dutch province of North Brabant (area southwest of Eindhoven) and Dutch Limburg around Weert. -Wikipedia (2024)

Romain Ickx: 1860-1953

The following historical chronology of the photographer appears courtesy of the Directory of Belgian Photographers hosted online by Fotomuseum Antwerp. (FOMU)

Life dates

Beauvechain, 1860 – Lubbeek, 1953

Activity

1886 – 1915 / Courtrai
° 21.10.1860; + 11.5.1953. At first clerk, later director in Courtrai of a bank belonging to the “Société Générale”. Pioneering pictorialist, specialist of foggy, marshy, and snow-covered landscapes; seascapes; views of Campine. Member of the “Société Photographique de Courtrai”. Secretary of the Courtrai section of the ABP in 1897; president 1913-1916. Gave a demonstration with autochromes to his fellow members of the ABP in April 1909. Moved to Brussels in 1915. Active to a lesser extent into the 1920s. Commissioner of the Brussels section of the ABP, 1922-1926. Ickx moved to Lubbeek in the Hageland (Brabant) in 1926 and abandoned photography.

Locations

1886 – 1915 / Courtrai

Exhibitions

Courtrai, 1893 (interiors); Bruges, 1894; Courtrai, 1894; Berlin, 1896 (bronze medal); Brussels, 1896; Lille, 1896; Courtrai, 1897; Hamburg, 1897 (in ABP collective exhibit); Paris, 1897; Brussels, 1898; Hamburg, 1898; Paris, 1898; Vienna, 1898; Berlin, 1899; Ghent, 1899; Hamburg, 1899; Leipzig, 1899; Antwerp, 1900 ABP; Courtrai, 1901; Effort, 1901; Mons, 1901; Paris, 1901; Brussels, 1902; Turin, 1902; Antwerp, 1903 ABP; Ghent, 1903; Ghent ABP, 1903; Louvain, 1904; Mons, 1904; Liège, 1905; Paris, 1905; Vienna, 1905; Saint-Quentin, 1907; Ghent, 1913.

Bibliography/Webography

DE KEYSER, Gilbert. “Romain Ickx: la passion du paysage”, Clichés, n° 3, 1984, pp. 40-49.

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Trees Lakes Supports Rain
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Dimensions

Image Dimensions16.5 x 12.0 cm Lieferung 1 | First Issue

Support Dimensions35.0 x 26.4 cm cropped to plate marks

Print Notes

Recto: engraved: u.l.: Die Kunst in der Photographie 1904.; u.r.: Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp in Halle a/S.; l.l.: R. Jckx Courtrai.; title, centered, lower margin: BOULEAUX.; l.r.: Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., hel. u. impr.; non-printed loose tissue guard.

Published

Art in Photography, With Selected Examples of European and American Work. Special Summer Number of ‘The Studio’ 1905, Holme, Charles G, [ed.] Published by The Studio, London, 1905. mounted halftone: A Rainy Day in the Campine, R.ICKX.

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