Alphonse Asselbergs

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Farmhouses in the snow

Alphonse Asselbergs (born June 19, 1839 in Brussels , † April 10, 1916 in Uccle ) was a Belgian landscape painter.

His father, Henri Asselbergs, ran a paper trade in Brussels and was a member of the Masonic Lodge. Alphonse and his brother Emile went to school at the local Athenaeum. At the age of twenty he started to work in his father's company.

In 1860 he met the landscape painter Edouard Huberti (1818–1880), and in 1861 he began to paint as an autodidact . He received his training from Huberti from August 1863. In the summer of 1866 he went with Huberti to the artists' colony Anseremme, a suburb of Dinant .

Finally, Asselbergs decided to devote himself to the profession of a painter. The family business was closed in 1866 and on September 6, 1867 he joined the painters in Tervuren . He rented a simple room in the artist hostel "In den Vos". He stayed regularly in Tervuren until the end of 1871. He made friends with Hippolyte Boulenger , Joseph-Théodore Coosemans and many other painters from the artists' colony in Tervuren, the Belgian counterpart to the Barbizon school.

In 1868 he was a co-founder of the Brussels artists' group “Société Libre des Beaux-Arts”, an association that opposed academicism. He participated in the Brussels Salon of 1869.

Asselbergs left Tervuren in October 1871 and visited Théodore T'Scharner in Eisden near Maasmechelen . Together with him he traveled to Kinrooi and Genk and later visited these places several times. From 1872 he stayed in a small hut in Kinrooi for four months. During this time he regularly made short trips to Genk.

From October 1873 to June 1874 he stayed with Arthur Bouvier in Algeria . After returning from Algeria, he stayed in Genk in the winter of 1874-1875. Together with Joseph-Théodore Coosemans, he went on a study trip to the Fontainebleau forest in 1875. He spent two years in the Barbizon artists' colony and returned to Belgium in the spring of 1877. He lived in Uccle, but also stayed regularly in Kinrooi and Genk, in the Ardennes and in Koksijde on the Belgian coast. He made short trips abroad: the Vosges, Nice and San Remo on the Italian Riviera.

In 1880 he took part in the exhibition "Historical overview of Belgian art" with four paintings. He also exhibited several times at the Paris Salon and took part in the 1910 World Exhibition in Brussels .

He was appointed officer of the Order of the Leopold in 1881 and 1896 .

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SURNAME Asselbergs, Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1916
Place of death Uccle / Ukkel