Frits van den Berghe (1883-1939)

Aliases: Frits van den Berghe

Professions: Painter; Illustrator

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  FRITS VAN DEN BERGHE (1883-1939)

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  Bloemen over de stad (Fleurs sur la ville)

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  FRITS VAN DEN BERGHE

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  Frits van den Berghe (1883-1939)

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Frits van den Berghe Biography

(b ghent, 3 april 1883; d ghent, 23 sept 1939). belgian painter and printmaker. he studied at the académie des beaux-arts in ghent (1891–1903) and grew up in an intellectual environment. like his friend gustave de smet, with whom he worked closely, almost until the end of his life, he began his painting career with a compromise between symbolism and impressionism, working sometimes in ghent, sometimes near the artists’ colony at laethem-saint-martin. he painted primarily portraits, interiors and landscapes. during world war i he moved to the netherlands and stayed there with de smet and other flemish artists in amsterdam and blaricum successively. in the netherlands, he became acquainted with dutch painters including leo gestel and the french émigré, henri le fauconnier. under the influence of fauvism, cubism, german expressionism and futurism, van den berghe painted a series of important canvases, mostly figure compositions and portraits, in which one can note the gradual development of a cubistic-expressionistic formal language. he also made woodcuts such as the wait (1919; see haesaerts, p. 319) and brush drawings that show the influence of german expressionism.

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