Jean Gouweloos

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Jean Léon Henri Gouweloos (* December 7, 1868 in Brussels ; † May 8, 1943 there ) was a Belgian portrait and nude painter as well as poster artist and lithographer.

Jean Gouweloos studied, like his brother Charles (1867-1946) from 1887 to 1890 and from 1893 to 1894 at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles . He was also a student of the painter and decorator Charle-Albert.

Before he went to university, he made a living drawing posters in Paris, then he worked in the family's printing house, which specialized in artistic printing.

From 1887 he showed his works at exhibitions in Brussels, Namur, Ostend and abroad: Paris (1900 and 1903), Düsseldorf (1904), Berlin (1908), Munich (1913). In 1891 he became a member of the artist group "Voorwaarts", where he befriended Victor Gilsoul (1867–1939). In 1895 he joined the group "Sillon".

Jean Gouweloos mainly painted portraits of women and nudes. Almost all women were depicted with a cigarette.

He also created two ceiling paintings in the Kursaal in Ostend and twelve paintings for the Masonic Lodge in Brussels (1900).

He spent the years of the First World War between 1914 and 1918 with his family in the Netherlands , first in Domburg , later in Scheveningen .

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