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Shameful Felicien Rops

Félicien Rops (Namur 1833-1898 Essonne) was a Belgian engraver, draftsman and painter. Despite his Catholic background, he led an unconventional life, commuting between his hometown, the castle of...

Symbolistic George Minne - Lyklema Fine Art

George Minne (1866, Ghent - 1941, Sint-Martens-Latem) is considered one of the leading Symbolist sculptors of Europe. His deeply personal works bridge Rodin's fin-de-siècle symbolism and influenced...

Abstract Theosophy by Hilma Af Klint

Hilma af Klint (Karlberg 1862-1944 Djursholm) was a Swedish painter and the first painter to work abstractly. Just as Vermeer was forgotten for 200 years before becoming the star of today, you can ...

Sunny Evert Pieters

Pieters (Amsterdam 1856- 1933 Laren) was born into a poor family. At the age of nineteen he went to Antwerp in the hope of building a better life there as an apprentice decorator. He attended eveni...

Expressionist Constant Permeke

Constant Permeke (Antwerp 1886-1952 Ostend) was one of the most important Belgian painters & visual artists of his time. Especially because of his innovative expressionist style. His father Hen...

Picturesque Vreedenburgh

Cornelis ('Cees') Vreedenburgh (Woerden 1880-1946 Laren) came into contact with painting at an early age through his father Gerrit. Cornelis worked at an early age in his father's painting company....

Sillonist Jean Gouweloos

Jean Léon Henri Gouweloos (Brussels 1868 - 1943 Brussels) was a Belgian painter, poster artist and lithographer. Before he started his art training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he...

Dierenschilder Willem van der Nat - Lyklema Fine Art

Animal painter Willem van der Nat

Willem Hendrik van der Nat (Leiden 1864-1929) was a Dutch impressionist painter who learned the lithography trade from C. Bos. He taught himself the painting trade. Willem also made cartoons for th...