| Code | DS/UK/170 |
| Dates | 08/08/1836-23/01/1912 |
| Person Name | Hymans; [Simon] Henri (08/08/1836-23/01/1912); Prof. |
| Surname | Hymans |
| Forenames | [Simon] Henri |
| Title | Prof. |
| Activity | Chief curator Bibliothèque royale de Belgique; professor of art history; art critic.
Volunteer at the print section of the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels (1857) under chief curator Louis Alvin (1806-1887), obtained a permanent position (1860). Director of the print section of the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (1875); Professor of esthetics and art history at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts (1877); professor of art history at the Antwerp Institut supérieur des Beaux-Arts (1884-1909); |
| Relationships | Married to Fanny Cluysenaar (1867). |
| History | During high school took drawing classes with Edward Dujardin (1817-1889) at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts and with François Stroobant (1819-1916) in Brussels (after 1849). Corresponding member of the Académie’s Classe des Beaux-Arts (1883); member of the Académie royale de Belgique (1885); president of the Académie d’Archéologie de Belgique (1887); |
| Source | Martens, Mina. Biographie nationale 30, suppl., 2 (1959), pp. 466-470; Solvay, Lucien. Notice sur Henri Hymans. Brussels: M. Hayez, 1922; Solvay, Lucien. “Notice sur Henri Hymans” Annuaire de l’Académie (1922-1923): 41-100; De Seyn, Eug. Dictionnaire biographique des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts en Belgique. 2. Brussels: Éditions L’Avenir, 1936, p. 586; [obituary:] B[autier], P. “ In memoriam Henri Hymans” L’art flamand et hollandais (April, 1912): 93-97; Rooses, Max. Henri Hymans (1836-1912). Notice biographique et bibliographique. Antwerp: J. van Hille-de Backer, 1912 (Bulletin Académie royale d’archéologie de Belgique (1912, Livre 2): 123-156). 'Hymans, [Simon] Henri], URL: <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/hymansh.htm> [accessed 12/01/2011]. |
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