Engelbert L'Hoëst
Engelbert L'Hoëst (born September 15, 1919 in Amersfoort , Netherlands , † December 9, 2008 in Soesterberg , Netherlands) was a Dutch painter.
life and work
L'Hoëst grew up with foster parents, first in Amersfoort and then on a farm in Holten near the Dutch-Munsterland border. Even in school he showed talent in drawing. At 15 he met the Amsterdam painter A. C. Sleeswijk , in whose house he found his home for many years. Sleeswijk became his teacher. Vincent van Gogh's sister E. H. Duquesne van Gogh was close friends with Sleeswijk and so Engelbert L'Hoëst came into close contact with the world of Vincent van Gogh - one of his great role models, but Auguste Renoir , Claude Monet and Karel Appel also played in his life an important role.
He exhibited in Parisian salons at a young age.
Long-term study visits took him to France, Spain and Portugal. Exhibitions in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. His most extensive retrospectives to date were held in 1989 in the Singer Museum in the artists' village of Laren (North Holland) and in 2011 in the Museum Flehite in his native Amersfoort .
You can see different creative phases in his works. The mysteriously quiet underwater landscapes of the 1940s were followed in the 1950s by bright polder landscapes with their unsettling, deeply colored cloud formations, which were partially reflected in the water surface, painted with sand trimmings - long rejected by the critics as "un-Dutch". In the 1960s he developed phosphorescent shimmering seascapes (Portugal) and agitated, glowing Provencal landscapes in the moonlight. The 1980s are dominated by traumatic-apocalyptic images. What is characteristic of him is the statement that he does not know any style because every moment in life is different. He worked in oil, acrylic, tempera and watercolor.
Engelbert L'Hoëst's paintings are in private and public collections in North America, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany.
literature
- Onno Maurer, Liselotte and Walter Farrenkopf, Hans-Jörg Modlmayr: Zonneschilder. Engelbert L'Hoëst. 1919-2008. Museum Flehite, Amersfoort 2011, Van Spijk Uitgevers, Venlo 2011, ISBN 978-90-6216-519-3 (exhibition catalog)
Web links
- Engelbert L'Hoëst at edition-hm-heimath
- More pictures in artnet
- Frank Welkenhuysen Gallery & Art Makelaardi
- Kunstmakelaardi Metzemaekers
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | L'Hoëst, Engelbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amersfoort , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2008 |
| Place of death | Soesterberg , Netherlands |