Gustave Van de Woestyne
Gustave Van de Woestyne (born August 2, 1881 in Ghent , † April 21, 1947 in Uccle ) was a Belgian portrait and still life painter and draftsman.
Gustave was born the younger brother of Karel van de Woestijne . He received his training from 1895 to 1899 at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Gent with Jean Delvin and Jules Evarist van Biesbroeck . In addition, he learned to play the organ.
With George Minne , Valerius de Saedeleer, Alfons Dessenis and the poet Karel Van de Woestijne, he was a member of Laethem-Saint-Martin's first group of artists to oppose the superficiality of Impressionism.
From 1898 he stayed regularly in Laethem-Saint-Martin. In 1900 he joined his brother and Julius de Praetere . Until Karel's marriage in 1904, the two brothers lived together and each devoted himself to his own calling.
In 1902 Gustave became a member of "Open Wegen". This group of artists, founded by Karel Van de Woestijne, suggested organizing conferences and concerts.
In 1903 he visited Paris with Émile Verhaeren . After his brother's marriage, Gustave lived for some time with Valerius de Saedeleer in Leuven.
In 1905 he spent three months as a novice in the Benedictine monastery of Mont-César in Louvain.
In 1908 he married Prudence De Schepper. The following year he left Laethem-Saint-Martin for Leuven . In 1911 his son Maxime was born. In 1912 he lived in Etterbeek (Brussels) and Tiegem . The following spring he went to Florence with Valerius de Saedeleer. After the outbreak of World War I , the Van de Woestyne and Saedeleer families fled to Sint-Anna-ter-Muiden in Holland , where the Minne family joined them. They then went to the UK to stay in various locations. After returning to Belgium in 1919, Van de Woestyne settled in Waregem . 1923 built a house in Laethem-Saint-Martin.
In 1924 he went to Vienna and the following spring to Florence and Venice.
In 1925 he settled in Mechelen and was appointed director and professor of painting at the local academy. He held this position until 1939.
At the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, he succeeded Frans Hens as professor of animal painting. In 1926 he joined the “IX. Group "at. Nine Flemish artists were there: Gustave Van de Woestyne, Frits Van den Berghe , Hippolyte Daeye , Oscar Jespers, Willem Paerels, Constant Permeke , Henri-François Raemaekers, Gustave de Smet and Edgard Tytgat .
In 1927 he made a trip to Florence with the students of the Academy of Mechelen to study the technique of frescoes. From 1928 to 1931 he taught monumental painting at the College of Decorative Arts in La Cambre . This activity took him again to Italy in 1928. In 1939 he gave up the management of the Mechelen Academy for health reasons and settled in Uccle. He died in 1947, probably as a result of arteriosclerosis.
literature
- Gustave van de Woestyne in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges (Online)
- Robert Hozee, Catherine Verleysen: Gustave Van de Woestyne : Edité par Fonds Mercator 2010. ISBN 9061539455 : ISBN 9789061539452
- Karel en Ik, inside: Gustave van de Woestijne : Uitgeverij Elsevier-Manteau, Brussel / Amsterdam, 1979
Web links
- Gustave van de Woestyne. Biographical data and works in the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Woestyne, Gustave Van de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Woestijne, Gustave van de; DeWoestyne, Gustave Joannes Philemon Alexander van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian portrait and still life painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 21, 1947 |
| Place of death | Uccle |