Paul Timper. “naked.” 80 Years.

Dimensions 46cm x 51cm; black aluminum frame.
Paul Timper (1937-2010).
Student of Léon Devos at the Brussels Academy, then of Fernand Wéry and Roger Somville at the Watermael-Boitsfort Academy, in 1958 he obtained the grand master's prize from the City of Brussels and the Ministry of National Education awarded him the Koopal tapestry prize the same year. In 1962 he joined the Atelier de la Céramique de Dour which Somville founded in 1958 on the initiative of Émile Cavenaille; he worked there with Thérèse and Marie-Henriette Bataille, who would become his wife, Claire Lambert as well as Monique Cornil. Founding member of the Realist Movement in 1969, he took part, among others, with Somville, in the work of the Hankar metro station, in 1975-76 (“Our time” fresco), and, as a member of the Art Collective Public that he joined in 1979, participated in 1986 in the creation of the new dome of the Théâtre royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, under the direction of Xavier Crols. In Brussels in 1990, he carried out a personal project for the atrium of the headquarters of the Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation: a monumental fresco developing the allegorical theme of the Man-Bird, with the help of Marie-Henriette Bataille, Marc Bolly and Xavier Crols. Paul Timper taught ceramics at the Watermael-Boitsfort Academy from 1973 to 1995. Works preserved in the Prints Cabinet of the Royal Library of Brussels, in the collections of the French Community of Belgium, the Province of Hainaut, as well as at the Verviers Museum and the BAM in Mons. . Numerous collective or personal exhibitions (Racine Gallery in Brussels in 1984, Saint George room in Mons in 1988, Parvis gallery in Saint Gilles in 1991, Hainaut Tourisme room in Mons in 1992, Marc Dengis gallery in Brussels in 1996, Elias gallery in Antwerp in 1999, Museums of Fine Arts of Mons in 2003, gallery 15 in Lilles in 2004, house of Secularism in Mons in 2007.