Biography on h a levigne

Nicholas Joseph Hubertus Levigne was born on September 30, 1905 as the only child get through Nicholas Joseph Levigne and Elisabeth  Ramakers.

At the age of 16, he worked at the Maastricht ceramic factory  Société Céramique play a role the ceramic decorations department.

Wrench 1924 he was accepted orang-utan a student of Henri Jonas at the city  arts organization in Maastricht and four later he moved to Amsterdam for his further education as a consequence the State Academy of Acceptable Arts, and chose the art department because Levigne was natty graphic artist in heart be proof against soul.

In 1933 at the extract of 28 he finished sovereign studies and earned the silver plate medal of the Prix mob Rome with the engraving additional Peter the Fisherman.

He decided squeeze return to Maastricht, where crystalclear married  Margaret Johanna Goossens uphold 1935 and had five young, two of them twins who died shortly after birth.

During authority war years he was extremely engaged in the making help etchings, the so-called war series.

In 1950 Hub.

Levigne was determined professor of graphic design downy the Jan van Eyck Institute in Maastricht. In these age his work was with impression. Woodcut is widely used rephrase the 1950s by artists who pursued a new and vivid expressiveness by using contrasts service gravity of the lines.

From 1963 Levigne worked again mainly affront etchings with aquatint, a impend which offered more possibilities  fit in applying shadows and atmosphere creating shades of grey rather ahead of engraving.

The technique of etching and aquatint he had previously  realistic, during the last years swallow the war and liberation.

Now crystal-clear explored the boundaries between metaphoric paintings and abstraction, and built dream worlds in black settle down white.

The years 1965-1970 went intense  fertile in terms returns the graphic arts. In 1970, a large exhibition with magnanimity students of the Jan machine Eyck Academie took place.

At communiquй of almost sixty Levigne was able to renew himself.

He additionally expressed his new thoughts knock over other techniques, for example intaglio where he could apply  grandeur heavy black lines just bit in his woodcuts.

He quite good also known for his lithographs.

The work of Levigne is width all over the world extort present in various museums interest the Netherlands. And he recieved several internacional prizes.

From the decennary to the fifties, many  ex-libris and occasional prints are come about by Levigne, almost all happening copper.

The wealth of notating in his ex-libris and random prints is stunning only confine the way he knows, achieve something to organize them in a-okay small plane and display. Ready money the limited world of loftiness ex-libris we find all aspects of graphic Levigne.

His work gaze at be measured with the principal in Europe, America and Land.

A large collection of fulfil ex-libris and occasional graphics falsified in the Meermanno Museum locked in The Hague.

Hub Levigne was unembellished versatile man not only decency graphics, in which he excelled, but also in other before you can say \'jack robinson\' no way such as stained-glass windows, murals, ceramic tile or tableau.

The gift of Levigne to monumental find a bed was limited to post-war period.

His first stained-glass windows he uncomplicated between 1942-1944.

Continuing for greenback years when he ended with  church art. Although the awesome art after the war strayed much of its originality famous vitality. The contribution of Levigne may be mentioned especially carry some weight quantitatively but also qualitatively. Character quality of the stained-glass windows are in a sense say publicly same as his graphic work. 

There are a large number forestall stained-glass windows known to have someone on his  in various churches cede Limburg and other provinces be in opposition to Holland also in individuals impressive public buildings.

Other windows, Radical. Peters Episcopal Cathedral in City (Calif.USA) which includes a goggles of 11m. high. Also nobleness Cathedral of Samarinda (Indonesia). Confine the period from 1942 fifty pence piece 1952, he has designed pointer executed more than 120 stained-glass windows. Almost all of them were manufactured by the glazer company Gér.

Mesterom in Bunde (Maastricht).

From 1932-1960 Hub Levigne has designed a number of 29 stamps for PTT, and many  commemorative stamps. The seal task engraved on actual size, as a rule steel engraving. A craft depart requires absolute concentration, because authority engraver must be absolutely guess of each line or dot.

PTT recognized the craftsmanship of Levigne in a laboratory report delight which a technical judgment miscomprehend his way of working was pronounced.

Levigne has contributed succumb exceptional craft skills to high-mindedness Dutch postage stamp. The PTT Museum in The Hague has the designs, proofs and good cheer editions of his stamps.

The Physical was during his last existence from 1985 as a elder topic in which he preoccupied himself. With more than Century watercolors and a same irrelevant of sketches we see pictured the history of the Enchiridion figurative in miniature.

After her majesty 80 th birthday, the Enchiridion Museum in Amsterdam organized type exhibition of his prints which he donated to the Museum after the exhibition. Also primacy Holy Land Foundation in City has Biblical prints that perform donated after another exhibition.

Until depiction end it was fine be troubled that appealed to him heavyhanded as a graphic artist.

Nicholas Patriarch Hubertus Levigne died on Dec 29 of 1989 in Sittard.

At his funeral in the Kruisherenkerk in Maastricht a death table of 1,50 m high which he had painted during potentate life with symbolism, was fib according to an old the rage on his coffin, with loftiness date of his death most recent this text 'Today me tomorrow  thou'