ムードを選ぶだけで、空間がそれに応えます。光は冷たさや温もりを帯び、空気の流れが変わり、その感情を宿した作品だけが暗闇の中から浮かび上がります。それ以外のすべては、影の中へと退いていくのです。
Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn: A Painter of Light and Emotion Born in Sydenham, London, in 1870, Wilfred Gabriel von Glehn – later adopting the surname de Glehn – embarked on an artistic journey shaped by cosmopolitan influences and a profound sensitivity to light and human emotion. His life, marked by travel, friendship with renowned artists, and personal tragedy, culminated in a distinctive body of work that blends Impressionistic realism
with symbolic depth, creating paintings imbued with both beauty and melancholy. De Glehn’s early artistic development was nurtured at the Royal Academy Schools in South Kensington, followed by brief studies at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. This immersion in European art traditions provided a crucial foundation, but it was his encounter with John Singer Sargent that truly shaped his approach. The American painter became…