By Albert Alhadeff
Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916), artwork critic, poet and homme de lettres, was once a guy whose imaginative and prescient transcended his local Belgium. With shut ties to Mallarmé in France and Rilke in Germany, Verhaeren, a peripatetic pupil of the humanities, comfortably traveled to Paris, Berlin, Cassel, Vienna and Amsterdam. From the mid-1880s until eventually his dying in 1916, his many journeys out of the country ended in a raft of essays and brief monographs at the arts of the Northern Renaissance. but, regardless of the insights, scholarship and markedly specified and revealing descriptions of those reports, they've got lengthy been overlooked in paintings old circles, overshadowed, might be, via Verhaeren’s personal poetic outpourings and his various essays on modern artwork.
during this booklet, Albert Alhadeff interprets, edits, annotates and contextualizes those usually impressive and continuously revealing stories on artists corresponding to Rembrandt, Rubens, Memling, Bruegel and Grünewald, masters from the North who labored commonly in Flanders, Holland and Germany within the 16th and 17th centuries. As Alhadeff finds, Verhaeren’s experiences of the masters of previous in Germany, Flanders and the newly born Dutch Republic are as a lot approximately Verhaeren the fellow as they're in regards to the topics of his inquiries.
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The wind is heard in the mountain. 36 Émile Verhaeren: Essays on the Northern Renaissance The torrent pours down the rock… forlorn on the hills of winds. Rise, moon! from behind thy clouds. Stars of the night arise! 92 Before these rending lamentations, these cries of suffocation, one can easily interject Grünewald’s personages with their “sensations of anguish, of chocking suffocation, of dreadful fright” (sensations d’angoisse, d’étouffement, de frayeur) (2:632). … Christ is in the throes of death, torn apart, hacked to pieces, swollen, a pitiable sight.
L’horreur sacrée ravage enfin l’âme humaine. 96 The sacred horror lives amidst dark shadows … The abyss! A cavern! A pit! … And finally the night … where the most far away earthly bodies recede forever ever further, seem to flee the horror of things before a fixed enigma and cross the empty silences of space with trembling and failure. The sacred horror ravages the human soul. The poet seizes it [my italics]. Thus la nuit and les ténèbres, integral to Grünewald and Rembrandt, draw the poets deep down into the abyss where dans les vides silences des espaces [thrive] [les] ténèbres,[les] mystère, [les] rêves, [les] cauchemars.
Thus what Verhaeren hoped to accomplish, Huysmans did. Verhaeren continued to publish and publish even on Grünewald, but it is Huysmans’s name that is often coupled with Grünewald’s. This was further aided by Huysmans’s more extensive publication of 1905, Trois Primitifs, which included a chapter on Grünewald, Les Grünewald du Musée de Colmar. This somewhat labored essay has had a long history in Grünewald studies. Reprinted at length in Louis Réau’s detailed study of 1920, Mathias Grünewald et le Retable de Colmar, Réau prefaces his introduction to Huysmans text with the remark that “this study is the first essay to transcribe the Isenheim leaves in a style particularly apt to Grünewald manner” (que cette étude… est le premier essai de transposition artistique du retable d’Isenheim par un styliste particulièrement apte à sentir… l’art de Grünewald)81 [my italics].
