Prix Godecharle

The Godecharle prize or the Godecharle contest is a contest for art students, the winners of which are granted a scholarship allocated by the Godecharle Foundation. The conditions for participation are that contestants are less than 35 years old, of Belgian nationality, or members of a country of the European Community who have lived in Belgium for at least five years.

Napoléon Godecharle (1803-1875) created the Godecharle Foundation on the 15th of March 1871 in remembrance of his father, the prominent sculptor Gilles-Lambert Godecharle and with the aim of promoting the education and the career of young Belgian artists, either sculptors, painters or architects.

To this end, the Godecharle foundation organizes every other year a contest better-known under its French name, the Prix Godecharle (the 'Godecharleprijs' in Dutch).

The prize allows young talents, unknown before the award, to become recognized by a panel of experts made up of famous artists. The renown of the contest is based, amongst other things, upon the reputation of the artists who sit on the jury.

The foundation has entrusted a provincial board, the so-called Commission provinciale des Fondations de bourses d’études du Brabant with the management of the contest and the follow-up exhibitions of the works of participants.

The Godecharle bursaries are allocated by this board, on proposals made up by a jury of renowned artists.

The contest

The first contest was organized in 1881. At the start, the competition took place every three years on the occasion of the Salons triennaux des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles in Belgium. Because of the First World War, the contest was adjourned until 1921. Since 1933, it is held every two years.

The laureates win prize money of 5,000 euros, granted in two instalments over two years. In accordance with its founder’s wishes, the winners have to spend this money on travelling abroad in order to improve their education or to conduct research, traditionally in Italy, the ceaseless return to Renaissance sources.

The jury

Many famous painters, sculptors and architects of these last hundred years have accepted to be members of the jury of the Godecharle contest.[1]

Some of them are internationally recognized, including Emile Claus, Paul Delvaux, Léon Frédéric, Fernand Khnopff, Constant Permeke, Jean Brusselmans, Louis Van Lint, Victor Bourgeois, and Pierre Alechinsky.

The successful careers of some of the winners also boosted the renown of this contest. These winners included personalities such as Victor Horta, Egide Rombaux, Victor Rousseau, John Cluysenaar, Tom Frantzen, Olivier Leloup, Guillaume Van Strydonck, Éliane de Meuse, Taf Wallet, Alfred Bastien and Isidore Opsomer.

A significant milestone in the history of the contest was the first grant of the prize to a female sculptor in 1921. The winner Éliane de Meuse was only twenty-two years old when she won the prize.[2] and the awarding panel comprised the Belgian symbolist Alberto Ciamberlani, Armand Rassenfosse and the Belgian neo-impressionist Emile Claus. The winning work, entitled Daphnis et Chloé was of an impressive size, i.e. 225 cm by 180 cm, and depicted a naked young couple in an embrace. In his report to the Minister, the chairman of the panel highlighted the stylistic qualities of the composition.[3]

The laureates

The laureates of the Prix Godecharle from 1881 to the present.

Year Sculpture Painting Architecture
1881 Eugène Broerman
1884 Paul Du Bois Guillaume Van Strydonck Victor Horta
1887 Égide Rombeaux José Dierickx Michel De Braey
1890 Victor Rousseau Auguste Leveque Adolphe Kockerols
1894 Ernest Wante and Eduard Van Esbroeck Émile Lambot
1897 Edward Deckers and Jacques Marin Alfred Bastien
1900 Paul Nocquet Philippe Swyncop Paul Bonduelle
1903 Charles De Brichy Isidore_Opsomer Joseph Van Neck
1907 Charles Collard Joe English Pol Berger
1910 Marnix d'Haveloose Pol Vandebroek Arthur Smet
1913 Alfred Courtens François Pycke Jean Hendrickx
1921 Éliane de Meuse was the first woman to win the Godecharle Prize [4]
1924 John Cluysenaar Léon Navez Antoine Courtens
1926 Jeanne Louise Milde[5]
1928 Fernand Debonnaires Taf Wallet Victor Maeremans
1931 Peter Colfs and Maurice Schelck
1933 Pol Van Esbroeck Jean Vander Loo
1935 Geert Reusens Emile Demey and Renaat Braem
1937 Georges Lambeau
1939 Elisabeth Barmarin Gustave Camus
1941 Albert Baisieux Luc Peire
1943 Lode Eyckermans Maurits Van Saene Clara Bourgonjon
1945
1947 André Hupet
1949 Rik Poot Jacques Lussie
1951 Robert Coolen
1953
1955 Christian Leroy
1957 Jean-Pierre Ghysels Jacqueline Desmare Jean Wilfart
1959 Pol Spilliaert
1961 Frans Van Den Brande Solange François Jean-Pierre Santenois
1963 Karel Dierickx
1965
1967 Nathalie Van Lierde
1969 Christine Teller Johan Baele
1971 Wim Mortelmans and Jean-Claude Herman
1973 Christian Rolet Claude Leveque
1975 Marianne Dock Luke Vanhooren
1977 Olivier Leloup Jacques 't Kindt
1979 Eddy Walrave Herman Maes Paul Robbrecht
1981 Tom Frantzen Christian Kieckens
1983 Vincent Rouseau and Lucie Sentjens Barthel Ritzen
1985 Bart Decq Elsje Lemaire Luc Van De Steene
1987 Louis Halleux Daniel Colin
1989 Bart De Zutter Gery De Smet Martine De Maeseneer
1991 Sven 't Jolle Nico De Gughtenaere
1993 Robin Vokaer Stefan Annerel Nathalie Vervenne
1995 Alexandra Jacquet Yves Lecomte
1997 Christina Van Glabeke, Mario Ferretti (mention) Katleen Vermeir, Xavier Martin (mention) Peter Swinnken, Pierre Lemaire (mention)
1999 Alexis Remacle Sarah Walraet Pierre Lemaire
2001 Thijs Snauwaert Vincent Callebaut and Caroline Voet
2003 Denis Mahin Stephan Balleux, Baptiste Colmant (mention), Vasken Mardikian (mention) Leonard Gellegos, Evelyne Hamblok (mention), Cedric Libert (mention), Olivier Mylle(mention)
2005 Nick Ervinck, Cathy Weyders (mention) Boris Thiebaut, Chiel Lambrecht (mention), Vincent Verscheure (mention) Pieter D'Haeseleer
2007 Marie Zolamian Kelly Hendriks
2009 Steve Dehoux Anna-Maija Rissanen Chloé Dewolf
2011 Caroline de Sauvage Lucie Flamant Axel Clissen
2013 Nel Bonte Pierre Maurcot Steven Schenk
2015 Ronja Schlickmann Hadrien Bruyaux Evelyne Baeten
2017 Conrad Willems Charlotte Flamand Wouter Verstraete
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  • Fondation Godecharle (in French and in Dutch)
  • List of the artists and jury members of the Prix Godecharle since its creation
  • New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division. Bibliographic guide to art and architecture. G. K. Hall., 1977.

See also

Notes
  1. (in French) A. Massin, W. Demulder, P. Bijtebier, Chr. Dehennin et Henri Kessels Les Concours Godecharle ont cent ans 1881-1981 Eliane de Meuse p.36 Dépôt légal D/1981/1758/3 - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-08-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Benezit Dictionary of Artists Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, édition refondue sous la direction de Jacques BUSSE, Editions Gründ – 60 rue Mazarine – 75006 Paris - 1999 - Dépôt legal: mars 1999, ISBN 978-2-7000-3049-5 (Tome 9) Meuse de, Eliane, for Eliane de Meuse p. 554
  3. (in French) Paul Caso, Éliane de Meuse monography, p 7 et (in French) Paul Piron, dictionnaire des artistes plasticiens de Belgique des XIXe et XXe siècles, volume 3, p. 235-238
  4. (in French) Alexia Creusen, Femmes artistes en Belgique XIXe et début XXe siècle, p. 120 – 2007 Publisher L'Harmattan, Paris, France ISBN 978-2-296-03372-6 . This author of this study is doctor in philosophy of styles and scientist assistant at Université of Liège. She contributed to the dictionary of the Belgian women, French title : Dictionnaire des femmes belges – 2006 – Editions Racine ISBN 2-87386-434-6
  5. JEANNE Louise MILDE (in Portuguese)
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