Jeanne Tercafs
Jeanne Tercafs (1898–1944) was a Belgian artist.
Also recorded as Jane Tercafs
Jeanne Tercafs
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- Name
- Jeanne Tercafs
- Born
- 1898
- Died
- 1944
- Field
- Sculpture Jeanne Tercafs (1898–1944) was a Belgian artist.
- Nationality
- Belgium
- Occupation
- sculptor
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• Name — Jeanne Tercafs • Born — 1898 • Died — 1944 • Field — Sculpture Jeanne Tercafs (1898–1944) was a Belgian artist.
Biography
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Tercafs was born in 1898. She was married to Alexis Bertrand. She studied at the Académie royale des beaux-arts de Liège and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In 1935 she applied for and received from the grant from the Belgium Ministry of Colonies to travel to the Congo. She was the first woman to receive a grant of this type. From 1935 through 1940 she made 3 trips to the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Tercafs died in 1944.
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• Illustration — Nito Mayogo woman • Illustration — African Mangbétu
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Borgloon.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Krzysztof Pluskota, In and Out of Focus. Images from Central Africa 1885–1960, Washington, 2003, .
- 2.Georg August Schweinfurth, Im Herzen von Afrika, Leipzig : F.A. Brockhaus (traduction : The Heart of Africa, New York), 1874 (Teil 2 online sur archive.org).
- 3.Dépôt du musée du Quai Branly.
- 4.Jean Garnier, Le sculpteur Jane Tercafs, Bruxelles : Éditions de la Phalange, 1938, .
- 5.Musée des Années Trente, Dossier Jeanne Tercafs, Boulogne-Billancourt.
- 6.Bruxelles, Archives du Palais royal, archives du Secrétariat de la reine Élisabeth, T52.
- 7.Tervuren, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, dossier Tercafs, 1049.23F.
- 8.Jeanne Tercafs, Religions et légendes du Congo belge (territoire des Mangbetous), Bruxelles, 1939.
- 9.Éric Biétry-Rivierre. Des artistes globe-trotteuses en quête d'exotisme. Le Figaro, supplément Le Figaro et vous. 32 . 27 janvier 2023.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- Hubert Coenen, Marc Lambrechts, Marcel Luwel (et al.), « Jeanne Tercafs », in : L'Orientalisme et l'Africanisme dans l'art belge. s, catalogue de l'exposition à Bruxelles du au , Bruxelles, CGER, 1984, 232 p., .
- Jacqueline Guisset (dir.), Le Congo et l'Art belge 1880-1960, Tournai, La Renaissance du livre, 2003, 270 p. .
- Petrine Archer-Straw, Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s, Londres : Thames & Hudson, 2000 .
- Sabine Cornelis, « L'œil du sculpteur : Jane Tercafs dans l'Uele 1935-1940 », in : Revue des Lettres belges et congolaises de langue française, 1998.
- Stéphane Richemond, Les Salons des artistes coloniaux, Paris : Éditions de l'Amateur, 2003 .
- G. Van Boxstael, Jeanne Tercafs of de vlucht van het cliché: kunstenares in Kongo tijdens het interbellum, thesisverhandeling (mémoire de licence inédit), KULeuven, 2004,
- Katlijne van der Stighelen [et al.], Elck zijn waerom : vrouwelijke kunstenaars in België en Nederland 1500-1950, Gand : Ludion, 1999 .
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