Georges Lemmen
Georges Lemmen The Belgian artist Georges Lemmen (1865-1916) abandons very early his studies of drawing, fearing that an academic training would paralyze him. In 1888, he becomes member of the Cercle Les XX and participates the following year, for the first time, in their annual exhibition as well as at the Salon des Indépendants in […]
Pierre-Louis Flouquet
Pierre-Louis Flouquet Pierre-Louis Flouquet (1900-1967) was born in Paris and moved with his family to Brussels in 1909. Although largely self-taught, he briefly studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where he met artists such as Victor Servranckx and René Magritte. Flouquet and Magritte would later share a studio, a formative period […]
Gustave De Smet
Gustave De Smet Gustave De Smet (1877-1943) was a key figure in the second generation of the Sint-Martens-Latem School. Alongside his brother Léon (1881–1966), he entered the artistic world at an early age, assisting his father, Jules, a set decorator. De Smet pursued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent, where he […]
Paul Delvaux
Paul Delvaux The beginnings of Paul Delvaux’s artistic journey were marked by numerous explorations that would ultimately lead him to the recurring motifs that, from one painting to the next, create a continuous pictorial conversation: antiquity, death, women, trains, and the world of Jules Verne. After a brief period at the Royal Academy of Fine […]
Edgard Tytgat
Edgard Tytgat Edgard Tytgat (1879–1957) is a multifaceted artist who spent most of his life in Brussels, and is best known for developing a style entirely his own. Before the First World War, Tytgat belonged to the same artistic circle as Rik Wouters and Jean Brusselmans. They exhibited their works alongside other Belgian Fauvists at […]
Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France. He is known for his portraits and nudes in a modern style characterised by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures—works that were not well received during his lifetime but later became highly […]