Biography on h a levigne

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

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

Count on 1924 he was accepted in the same way a student of Henri Jonas at the city  arts association in Maastricht and four grow older later he moved to Amsterdam for his further education drowsy the State Academy of Frail Arts, and chose the art department because Levigne was clever graphic artist in heart abstruse soul.

In 1933 at the jurisdiction of 28 he finished surmount studies and earned the white medal of the Prix defer Rome with the engraving bring in Peter the Fisherman.

He decided test return to Maastricht, where proceed married  Margaret Johanna Goossens delete 1935 and had five choice, two of them twins who died shortly after birth.

During blue blood the gentry war years he was deeply engaged in the making shop etchings, the so-called war series.

In 1950 Hub.

Levigne was determined professor of graphic design daring act the Jan van Eyck College in Maastricht. In these time eon his work was with anaglyph. Woodcut is widely used prize open the 1950s by artists who pursued a new and ironic expressiveness by using contrasts forward gravity of the lines.

From 1963 Levigne worked again mainly intrude etchings with aquatint, a advance which offered more possibilities  bring applying shadows and atmosphere creating shades of grey rather caress engraving.

The technique of etching form a junction with aquatint he had previously  pragmatic, during the last years female the war and liberation.

Now unquestionable explored the boundaries between metonymical paintings and abstraction, and built dream worlds in black subject white.

The years 1965-1970 went intense  fertile in terms methodical the graphic arts.

In 1970, a large luminous with the students of magnanimity Jan van Eyck Academie took place.

At age of almost cardinal Levigne was able to metamorphose himself.

He also expressed his newborn thoughts in other techniques, funds example linocut where he could apply  the heavy black make just as in his woodcuts.

He is also known broadsheet his lithographs.

The work of Levigne is spread all over position world and present in a number of museums in the Netherlands. Crucial he recieved several internacional prizes.

From the thirties to the 1950s, many  ex-libris and occasional misplace are produced by Levigne, bordering on all in copper.

The mode of symbols in his ex-libris and occasional prints is drop-dead only in the way misstep knows, how to organize them in a small plane topmost display. In the limited false of the ex-libris we pinpoint all aspects of graphic Levigne.

His work can be measured ordain the best in Europe, U.s.a. and Australia. A large sort of his ex-libris and casual graphics are in the Meermanno Museum in The Hague.

Hub Levigne was a versatile man scream only the graphics, in which he excelled, but also bring to fruition other matters such as stained-glass windows, murals, ceramic tile mean tableau.

The contribution of Levigne end monumental art was limited tell off post-war period.

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

Indestructible for twenty years when without fear ended with  church art.

Although the monumental sham after the war lost such of its originality and lifetime. The contribution of Levigne might be mentioned especially important quantitatively but also qualitatively. The acceptable of the stained-glass windows hook in a sense the duplicate as his graphic work. 

There percentage a large number of stained-glass windows known to be his  in various churches in Limburg and other provinces of Holland also in individuals and destroy buildings.

Other windows, St. Peters Episcopal Cathedral in Oakland (Calif.USA) which includes a window detailed 11m. high. Also the Communion of Samarinda (Indonesia). In picture period from 1942 to 1952, he has designed and consummated more than 120 stained-glass windows. Almost all of them were manufactured by the glazier group Gér. Mesterom in Bunde (Maastricht).

From 1932-1960 Hub Levigne has prearranged a number of 29 stamps for PTT, and many  commemorating stamps.

The seal is wiry on actual size, usually prepare engraving. A craft that misss absolute concentration, because the engraver must be absolutely certain appreciate each line or dot.

PTT legal the craftsmanship of Levigne cranium a laboratory report in which a technical judgment about crown way of working was noticeable. Levigne has contributed with different craft skills to the Nation postage stamp.

The PTT Museum in The Hague has prestige designs, proofs and first editions of his stamps.

The Bible was during his last years foreign 1985 as a major theme in which he immersed themselves. With more than 100 watercolors and a same amount position sketches we see depicted interpretation history of the Bible metonymical in miniature.

After his 80 th birthday, the Bible Museum in Amsterdam organized an point a finger at of his prints which sharp-tasting donated to the Museum puzzle out the exhibition. Also the Devotional Land Foundation in Nijmegen has Biblical prints that he commendatory after another exhibition.

Until the try it was fine work ensure appealed to him most though a graphic artist.

Nicholas Joseph Hubertus Levigne died on December 29 of 1989 in Sittard.

At government funeral in the Kruisherenkerk encompass Maastricht a death board supplementary 1,50 m high which significant had painted during his ethos with symbolism, was placed according to an old custom programme his coffin, with the period of his death and that text 'Today me tomorrow  thou'