Anna Boch

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Théo van Rysselberghe: Anna Boch, 1893
Anna Boch in her studio, around 1890

Anna Rosalie Boch (* 10. February 1848 in Saint-Vaast ( La Louvière ); † 25. February 1936 in Ixelles in Brussels ) was a Belgian painter of Impressionism and art patron .

Life

Anna Boch was the eldest daughter of the stoneware manufacturer Victor Boch ( Villeroy & Boch ) and the older sister of the painter Eugène Boch (1855–1941).

She received her first drawing lessons from the painter Isidore Verheyden , who urged her to continue studying in Paris . Accompanied by his mother, Boch went to Paris in 1868 to study with Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian . At the Académie, the young painter attracted the attention of her teachers with her great talent for drawing. Around 1885 she met the painter Théo van Rysselberghe . He was a founding member of the Société des Vingt ( Les Vingt for short , German Die Zwanzig ), an association of avant-garde artists who campaigned for artistic exchange between France and Belgium.

Anna Boch created works in an Impressionist , at times also in a Neo-Impressionist manner, and in 1890 bought a painting by Vincent van Gogh , the "Red Vineyard", painted in Arles at the Société des Vingt exhibition , where she and her brother Eugène were also represented . Presumably she did this on the recommendation of her brother, who possibly wanted to support Van Gogh, who had meanwhile fallen ill, materially and morally. The secretary of the Société des Vingt , Octave Maus, was a cousin of the Boch siblings. Boch organized a benefit auction for Paul Gauguin in 1890 . Anna Boch ran an open house for progressive artists in Ixelles and, in addition to two paintings by van Gogh - she acquired a second in 1891 - which she sold again in 1907, also paintings by Gauguin, Georges Seurat , Paul Signac and by James Ensor , who in her Salon was upside down.

Works (selection)

  • Tijdens de elevatie , oil on canvas, 1893

  • Femme lisant dans un massif de Rhododendrons , oil on canvas, around 1900

  • Falaise - Côte de Bretagne , oil on canvas, 1900/1902

  • La Louvriere , oil on canvas, around 1910

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SURNAME Boch, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boch, Anna Rosalie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Vaast ( La Louvière )
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1936
Place of death Ixelles near Brussels