André Fontainas
André Fontainas (1865–1948) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and critic. He was born in Brussels. He spent much of his life in France.
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André Fontainas
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- Full name
- André Jean Fontainas.
- Born
- 1865. · Brussels.
- Died
- 1948. · Paris.
- Nationality
- Belgium and France.
- Occupation
- writer, poet, art critic and art historian.
- Fields
- poetry.
- Education
- Lycée Condorcet.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour, Prix René-Bardet, Prix Kastner-Boursault and Georges-Dupau award.
- Languages
- French.
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André Fontainas (1865–1948) was a Belgian Symbolist poet and critic. He was born in Brussels. He spent much of his life in France.
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He taught at Lycee Fontaines. He was a member of the Académie Mallarmé. • Illustration — Portrait of André Fontainas, was a Belgian Symbolist poet.
• Le sang des fleurs, Imprimerie Veuve Monnom, 1889 * • Nuits d'Epiphanie 1894 • Les Estuaires d'ombre, 1896 • Crépuscules, 1897 • L'Eau du Fleuve, 1897 * * * • L'oeuvre d'André Fontainas, Marguerite Bervoets (ed), Palais des Académies, 1949 • Choix de poèmes, Mercure de France, 1950
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Memoirs
• Mes souvenirs du symbolisme, La Nouvelle revue critique, 1928 • Confession d'un poète, Mercure de France, 1936
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* • Frans Hals, H. Laurens 1908 * • Courbet, F. Alcan, 1921 • La peinture de Daumier, G. Crès et cie, 1923 • Constantin Meunier, Alcan, 1923 • Rops, F. Alcan, 1925 • Constable, Translator Wilfrid Scarborough Jackson, John Lane, 1927 • Bonnard, Librairie de France, 1928 • Dans la lignée de Baudelaire, La Nouvelle revue critique, 1930 • Tableau de la poésie française d'aujourd'hui, La Nouvelle revue critique, 1931 • L'Antisémitisme: son histoire et ses causes, J. Crès, 1934
Portrait of Belgian poet André Fontainas (1865-1948) from Le Livre des masques (vol. II, 1898) by Remy de Gourmont (1858-1916)
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