Fernand Verhaegen (1883-1975) was a Belgian painter and etcher. Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e For other uses of etch or etching, see Etching (disambiguation, for the history of the method see Old master prints.
He was born in Marchienne-au-Pont, near Charleroi in Wallonia. Marchienne-au-Pont is a section of the Belgian town of Charleroi within the Walloon region in the Province of Hainaut. Charleroi (Tchålerwè is the largest city and municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. He took courses at the Academy for Fine Arts of Brussels from 1900 to 1906 and there became friends with Rik Wouters and Edgard Tytgat. Rik Wouters ( August 21, 1882, Mechelen &mdash July 11, 1916, Amsterdam) was a Belgian fauvist After graduation he exhibited his works in Belgium and abroad (Biennale of Venice in 1920 and 1922). His style gradually evolved from impressionism and Belgian luminism to a synthetic form of capturing reality. Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s Luminism is a late- impressionist or neo-impressionist style in painting which devotes great attention to light effects In his later years, he came back to a personal form of impressionism.
Verhaegen specialized in painting Walloon folklore: Carnival of Binche (he was soon recognised as the painter of "the Gilles of Binche"), Doudou of Mons, Giants of Ath, Chinelles of Fosses, Chaudia of Leernes, Pasqueye, and so on. He also created a series of etchings devoted to the folklore in Wallonia. In his book about this artist, Robert Magremanne has named him "the great master of the Walloon folklore". He died in Montignies-le-Tilleul in 1975.
Verhaegen's works are in many museums of Belgium (Antwerp, Brussels, Charleroi, Ixelles, Liège, Mons) and abroad (Genève, Grenoble, Indianapolis). ||-||-||-||} Antwerp ( Dutch:, French: Anvers) is a City and Municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is Charleroi (Tchålerwè is the largest city and municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Elsene ( Dutch) or Ixelles ( French) is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium Liège (ljɛːʒ Older English: Luick, Walloon: Lidje, German: Lüttich; Latin: Leodium, Dutch Mons ( Dutch: Bergen, Picard: Mont) is a Walloon City and municipality located in the Belgian Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking Grenoble is a city and commune in south-east France situated at the foot of the Alps where the Drac joins the Isère River.
References
- Magremanne, Robert (2003). Fernand Verhaegen, le grand maître du folklore wallon. Charleroi (Belgium): Imprimerie Provinciale du Hainaut. ISBN 2930336307
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