Géo Bernier (16 July 1862 – 28 December 1918) was a Belgian painter of landscapes and portraits, but principally of horses. He was also a poster designer. Born in Namur, he moved to Brussels in 1880. He died in Ixelles.

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He was the husband of the artist Jenny Hoppe and father of the composer René Bernier and of an ephemeral mayor of Saint-Gilles, Fernand Bernier.[1]

Works

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  Mounted Hussar (drawing, 1918; privately owned)
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  Sunday Morning in Flanders (oil on canvas; property of Commune of Saint-Gilles)
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  Construction of Breakwater, Heyst (oil on canvas, privately owned)
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  Oxen in Yoke (oil on canvas; privately owned)
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  The Sleeping Water (oil on canvas; Museum M Leuven)
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  Summer Landscape with Farm (oil on canvas; privately owned)
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  Cows in a Meadow (oil on canvas; M-Museum Leuven)

Further reading

• G. Van Zype: "Georges Bernier" in Nos peintres, 2nd series, Brussels, 1904, pp. 23–34
• J. Potvin, Géo Bernier, 1926: Le dernier des animaliers. Brussels: SA M. Weissenbruch
• La peinture animalière en Belgique au XIX' siècle, Brussels 1982, pp. 62, 147 et 148, 154, 166
• "Bernier Géo" in Nos Contemporains, Portraits et biographies des personalités belges ou résidant en Belgique, connues par l'œuvre littéraire, artistique ou scientiphique, ou par l'action politique par l'influence morale ou sociale. Brussels 1904, pp. 242–244
• "Bernier-Hoppe Jenny" in Nos Contemporains, Portraits et biographies des personalités belges ou résidant en Belgique, connues par l'œuvre littéraire, artistique ou scientiphique, ou par l'action politique par l'influence morale ou sociale. Brussels 1904, pp. 244–245
• P. Piron: De Belgische beeldende kunstenaars uit de 19de en 20ste eeuw (2 delen); Uitgeverij Art in Belgium (1999) ISBN 90-76676-01-1
• Danny Lannoy, Frieda Devinck, Thérèse Thomas, 2007: Impressionisten in Knocke & Heyst (1870-19140. Oostkamp: Stichting Kunstboek ISBN 978-90-5856-247-0

References

External links

• Géo Bernier (in French)
• Monographie de Saint-Gilles lez-Bruxelles (in French)

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