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Theo Van Rysselberghe Belgian Pointillist Painter, 1862-1926
was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century. Born in Ghent to a French-speaking bourgeois family, he studied first at the Academy of Ghent under Theo Canneel and from 1879 at the Academy of Brussels under the directorship of Jean-François Portaels. The North African paintings of Portaels had started an orientalist fashion in Belgium. Their impact would strongly influence the young Theo van Rysselberghe. Between 1882 and 1888 he made three trips to Morocco, staying there a total of one year and half. Barely 18 years old, he already participated at the Salon of Ghent, showing two portraits. Soon afterwards followed his Self-portrait with pipe (1880), painted in somber colours in the Belgian realistic tradition of that time. His Child in an open spot of the forest (1880) already departs from this style and he sets his first steps towards impressionism.
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Painting ID:: 94260 Portrait of Marguerite van Mons who later married Thomas Braun
1886(1886)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 89.5 x 70.5 cm (35.2 x 27.8 in)
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Painting ID:: 94261 Portrait of Madame van Rysselberghe and daughter
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Painting ID:: 94262 Four Bathers
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Painting ID:: 94263 Magnolias
1910
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Painting ID:: 98173 The Sisters of the Painter Schlobach
1884(1884)
Medium oil on canvas
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Theo Van Rysselberghe
Belgian Pointillist Painter, 1862-1926
was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the century. Born in Ghent to a French-speaking bourgeois family, he studied first at the Academy of Ghent under Theo Canneel and from 1879 at the Academy of Brussels under the directorship of Jean-François Portaels. The North African paintings of Portaels had started an orientalist fashion in Belgium. Their impact would strongly influence the young Theo van Rysselberghe. Between 1882 and 1888 he made three trips to Morocco, staying there a total of one year and half. Barely 18 years old, he already participated at the Salon of Ghent, showing two portraits. Soon afterwards followed his Self-portrait with pipe (1880), painted in somber colours in the Belgian realistic tradition of that time. His Child in an open spot of the forest (1880) already departs from this style and he sets his first steps towards impressionism.
. Related Artists to Theo Van Rysselberghe: | BRUNELLESCHI, Filippo | Gabriel von Max | Eloise Harriet Stannard | Carl Olaf Larsson | HERREYNS, Willem |
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