Guillaume Van Strydonck

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Guillaume Van Strydonck (born December 10, 1861 in Namsos , † July 2, 1937 in Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis ) was a Belgian painter who worked in India from 1891 to 1896.

Van Strydonck was born in Norway, where his father worked for a Bruges company; he returned to Belgium soon after his son was born.

At the age of twelve, Guillaume took drawing lessons from Edouard Agneessens . From 1876 to 1884 he studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Brussels under Jean-François Portaels and became friends with James Ensor and the sculptor Guillaume Charlier (1854-1925). He later went to Paris and studied at the École des beaux-arts de Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme .

In 1883 he was one of the founders of the avant-garde artists' association " Société des Vingt ". At first he worked in a realistic style, portraits, landscapes, genre works, historical scenes and still lifes. Later his method became more and more emphatically impressionistic . At the time, he was also considered to be one of the forerunners of Belgian luminism . In 1883 Van Strydonck received 3rd prize at the Prix ​​de Rome and in 1884 he received the Gilles Lambert Godecharle Prize. He took part in exhibitions in the Salon de "L'Essor".

In 1886 he took a trip to Florida , after which he painted for a few years in Mechelen, where he met Jan Toorop and William Degouve de Nuncques , and in Blankenberge . He then stayed in India from 1891 to 1896 . Back in Belgium, he settled in Weert aan de Schelde , where he made the Belgian landscape his main theme.

From 1900 to 1931 he taught at the Academy in Brussels. He died in 1937 at the age of 75.

literature

  • Van Strydonck, Guillaume in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (online)
  • J. Block, Guillaume Van Strydonck, a Belgian artist in India (1891-96) , The Burlington Magazine 146 (2002), p. 158-164

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personal data
SURNAME Van Strydonck, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Namsos
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1937
Place of death Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis