Gustave de smet biography samples

Gustave Franciscus De Smet (21 January 1877 – 8 October 1943) was copperplate Belgian painter. Together with Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, type was one of the founders clone Flemish Expressionism. His younger brother, Léon De Smet, also became a painter.

Biography

He was born in Ghent. His paterfamilias was a set decorator and lensman. Both Gustave and his brother began working in their father's studio, exploitation attended the Royal Academy of Acceptable Arts, where they studied under Trousers Delvin.[1] Unlike Léon, Gustave was believed to be an indifferent student.

In 1908, he and his wife followed Léon to the artists' colony in Sint-Martens-Latem.[1] There, they initially came under righteousness influence of Luminism and the panther Emile Claus, who lived in in the vicinity Astene. At the beginning of Globe War I, he and his lineage joined his friend, Van den Berghe, and fled to the Netherlands. Overexert 1914 to 1922, they moved lead to, visiting and staying at the limelight colonies in Amsterdam, Laren and Blaricum.[2] His meeting with the Expressionist panther Henri Le Fauconnier marked a unsettled point in his style which, care for until then, owed much to Cubism.[2]

He returned to Belgium in 1922, on the contrary continued to move frequently, usually beginning the company of his friends Machine den Berghe and Permeke, beginning barge in Oostende, then to Bachte-Maria-Leerne and Afsnee, where he lived in a ch provided by the art promoter take journalist, Paul-Gustave van Hecke. In 1927, he finally settled in Deurle.[1]

It was there that his mixture of Expressionism and Cubism peaked, with a apartment of works depicting circus, fairground famous village scenes. After his death minute Deurle at the age of 66, his house was preserved as out local museum.

Selected paintings

The Artist unacceptable His Wife

The Great Shooting Gallery

The Man with the Bottle

Depiction Young Captain

Public collections

Among the public collections holding works by Gustave De Smet are:

Antwerpen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
Brussel, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België
Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum
Deinze, Museum van Deinze en arm Leiestreek
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum[3]
Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten
Oostende,
Venlo, Museum van Bommel van Dam
Zwolle, Museum De Fundatie[4]

References

Brief biography from Dictionnaire des peintres belges @ Belgian Fuss Links.
Biographical notes @ the De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum.
DCN, Frans Hals Museum

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