Gaston Bertrand

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Gaston Bertrand (born September 2, 1910 in Wonck , Belgium , † February 20, 1994 in Brussels , Belgium), was a Belgian painter .

Gaston Bertrand was an important representative of modern art and abstract painting in Belgium after the Second World War with an international reputation.

He studied art at the Académies des Beaux-arts de Bruxelles in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels).

Bertrand was the founder of the artist groups La Route Libre in 1939 and Apport in 1941 .

In 1945 , together with the artists Jan Cox , Louis Van Lint , Anne Bonnet , Marc Mendelson , James Ensor and others, he founded the La Jeune Peinture Belge Foundation (or: Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst ), which had the task of encouraging young Belgian artists to participate at important exhibitions at home and abroad. Exhibitions have been organized (among others) in: Amsterdam , Bordeaux , Brussels , Stockholm , and Zurich .

At the beginning of his artistic career Gaston Bertrand mainly painted cityscapes , landscapes , portraits and the like. His painting was figurative in the expressionist style. In the late 1940s , his art became more abstract and involved geometric shapes. His work also includes watercolors , copper engravings and ink drawings .

His pictures belong to the collections (among others) of the Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Ostend , the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels and Antwerp , the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK) in Ghent and the Musée de l'Art Wallon Luik .

Bertrand had his studio in Uccle near Brussels. In 1959 he took part in documenta II in Kassel .

He died in Brussels on February 20, 1994 at the age of 83 .

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