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Frans SmeersFrans Smeers (1873-1960) Portrait of an artist, oil on canvas signedcirca 1930
circa 1930
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Frans Smeers (1873-1960)
Portrait of an artist,
signed lower right (partially hidden by the frame)
42.5 x 36 cm
Framed : 50 x 43.5 cm
This work is typical of Smeers' post-impressionist style, as found in his famous beach scenes for example.
It gives its full effect in the nervous and lively rendering of this artist's portrait.
Frans Smeers was born in Brussels on January ,1873 - Brussels, June 1, 1960), his complete name was François, Emile, Isidore, Léopold Smeers.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, with Jean-François Portaels and Joseph Stallaert. He was one of the founding members of the Cercle "le Sillon", for which he designed the posters for the sixth and seventh Salon (Brussels, 1899 & 1900).
Member of the Belgian National Council of Plastic Arts (CNAP).
He taught from 1933 to 1946 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, where his students included Nicolas de Staël and Médard -Siegfried Tytgat,.
He lived mainly in the Brussels region (in Brussels itself, in Ixelles and Saint-Gilles), but stayed from 1915 to 1919 in London and then in the Netherlands.
He created numerous portraits, including those of painter friends or his family, his wife and his four daughters. Close to nature, he was often inspired by the landscapes of the North Sea, particularly those of Nieuwpoort and Ostend. He painted many bright and colorful beach scenes.
Throughout his career, he exhibited in a large number of fairs, mostly in Brussels, but also in Ghent, Ostend, Barcelona, Brighton, Geneva, London, Munich (where he obtained a gold medal in 1913), Paris (in particular at the Salon des Independants and the Salons of the Société nationale des beaux-arts), at the Venice Biennale... Several retrospectives have been devoted to him, the most recent at the Center d'Art du Rouge- Cloister in 1997.
His works are kept in museums in Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Ixelles, The Hague.
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