Florent Crabeels
Florent Nicolas Crabeels (born December 5, 1829 in Antwerp ; † June 7, 1896 ibid) was a Belgian genre and landscape painter and etcher .
Florent Crabeels studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen with Jacob Jacobs (1812–1879) and Egide Linnig .
At first he mostly painted scenes from the village and small town markets. Later he painted landscapes from the Kempen region (French Campine). He became an avid fan of outdoor painting . Crabeels mainly worked in the Wechelderzande artists' colony together with Jacques Rosseels, Isidore Meyers and Adriaan Joseph Heymans from the landscape painting school of Kalmthout .
As a neo-impressionist, he returned to genre scenes around 1890. In 1886 he became a founding member of "L'Art Indépendant".
In addition to painting, Crabeels also dealt with etching.
literature
- Paul Bergmans: Crabeels, Florent Nicolas . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 41–42 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- C. Lemonnier: L'Ecole belge de Peinture : 1906: pp. 128, 187
Web links
- Florent Crabeels. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
- Crabeels, Florent in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crabeels, Florent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Crabeels, Florent Nicolas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian genre and landscape painter and etcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1896 |
| Place of death | Antwerp |