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Pierre (Baron) Courtens
Rocamadour, Modernist Abstract Architectural Village Landscape

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Pierre Courtens is a French painter of Belgian origin, born in Brussels in 1921 and died in Ribérac Dordogne in 2004. Baron Pierre Courtens is the third generation of painters with his brother Jacques Courtens , son of Hermann Courtens, grandson of Franz Courtens. His grandfather and then his father, director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, were ennobled by the King of the Belgians for their talent and this title became hereditary. Biography In 1942, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode , having as professor the painter Jacques Maes. He also studied monumental decorative art at Anto-Carte and studied at the Academie Supérieure of the Kingdom of Belgium in Antwerp, in etchings and engravings on wood (Cours Broccas). In 1947, after numerous stays in France and Holland, Pierre Courtens settled in Paris where he gave free rein to his personal fantasy, moving away from that of classical ancestral painting. In 1947, the artist lived in Montparnasse and frequented the artists Jean-Michel Atlan, Oscar Dominguez, Ossip Zadkine, Mane Katz, frequently alongside Jacques Villon in Puteaux at Camille Renault , is one of the painters of the School of Puteaux. He is the friend of the painter René Pradez, who is also attached to Camille Renault, whom he paints more than twice. He is notably famous for the portraits he made of Antonin Artaud, whom he met in 1946. Exhibitions 1947 - Participated in the Advertising Poster in America (America Line) with his brother Jacques. 1947 - Exhibition at the Galerie Pierre Maurs in Paris: at the Salons of the New Reality, the Independents, the Independents, always with his brother Jacques. 1948 - Participated in the Salon des Moins de Thirty Years, and with the former students of the Academy of Antwerp, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels . 1949 - Independent show . 1951 - Participates in the exhibition "Visages Présents" in Knocke le Zoute in Belgium, group exhibition including E. Goerg, A. Herbin, M. Kisling, A. Lhote, C. Permeke, V. Servrank, J. Villon, H. de Waroquier, and at the Galerie Appolo in Brussels (organizer Jacques Courtens). Until 1972, many exhibitions at Camille Renault in Paris and Puteaux.
  • Creator:
    Pierre (Baron) Courtens (1921, Belgian)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Width: 18.75 in (47.63 cm)
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  • Condition:
    frame and mount need replacing.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38211759232
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