Frans de Geetere Art
1895-1968
Frans de Geetere was born François Joseph Jean de Geetere in Oudergem, a suburb of Brussels. De Geetere studied at the Beaux-Arts in Brussels but rebelled against the academic teaching there. With his partner, the painter May den Engelsen, De Geetere sailed a barge from Brussels to Paris, where they moored by the Quai de Conti by the Pont Neuf and lived a Bohemian lifestyle. De Geetere and den Engelsen were intimate with Harry and Caresse Crosby in the late 1920s. Harry wrote to his mother, “If two people can be in love with two people then we are in love with them.” Harry Crosby shot himself after the Wall Street Crash in 1929. De Geetere had an exhibition the following year at the Galerie de la Plume d’Or, introduced by the art critic André Warnod. But that was, essentially the end of his career. The chief influence on De Geetere’s work was the Belgian Symbolists, particularly Fernand Khnopff. The etchings of De Geetere are sombre and disquieting, infused with a miasma of conflicted sexuality and existential dread. His art now feels very modern, resonating, for instance, with both that of Paula Rego and that of Jake and Dinos Chapman. In his lifetime De Geetere fell so far out of favor that he titled a volume of lightly-fictionalized memoirs, self-published from his barge the Marie-Jeanne, L’homme qui oublia de mourir – The man who forgot to die.
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Artist: Frans de Geetere
Landscape with Figures
By Frans de Geetere
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This artwork titled Landscape with Figures" c.1950, is a watercolor by noted Belgian artist Frans De Geetere, 1895-1968. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The art...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Frans de Geetere Art
Materials
Watercolor
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The artist Frans de Geetere was born François Joseph Jean de Geetere in Oudergem, a suburb of Brussels. Frans de Geetere studied at the Beaux-Arts in Brussels, but rebelled against the academic teaching there. With his partner, the painter May den Engelsen, Frans de Geetere sailed a barge from Brussels to Paris, where they moored by the Quai de Conti by the Pont Neuf and lived a Bohemian lifestyle. De Geetere and den Engelsen were intimate with Harry and Caresse Crosby in the late 1920s; Harry wrote to his mother, “If it is possible for two people to be in love with two people then we are in love with them.” Harry Crosby shot himself after the Wall Street Crash in 1929. Frans de Geetere had an exhibition the following year at the Galerie de la Plume d’Or, introduced by the art critic André Warnod. But that was, essentially the end of his career. The chief influence on Frans de Geetere’s work was the Belgian Symbolists, particularly Fernand Khnopff. The etchings of Frans de Geetere are sombre and disquieting, infused with a miasma of conflicted sexuality and existential dread. His art now feels very modern, resonating, for instance, with both that of Paula Rego and that of Jake and Dinos Chapman...
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