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The big influence from 'Les Vingts'

Les XX (Les Vingt) was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers and sculptors, formed in 1883 by the Brussels lawyer, publisher and entrepreneur Octaaf Maus. For ten years they held an annual ...

Gray master Wim Schumacher

Wim Schuhmacher (Amsterdam 1894-1986) is one of the best-known artists around Magical Realism. He trained as a house painter and was an interior artist's assistant from 1911 to 1913. He mainly taug...

Colorist Jean Brusselsmans

Jean Brusselmans (Brussels 1884-1953 Dildeek) was a Belgian painter, although he (also) started as an engraver and lithographer. He trained at the academy in Brussels. His early work (1900 to 1912)...

Abstract Theosophy by Hilma Af Klint

Hilma af Klint (Karlberg 1862-1944 Djursholm) was a Swedish painter and the first painter to work abstractly. Just as Vermeer was forgotten for 200 years before becoming the star of today, you can ...

Illuminist Frans Smeers

Frans Smeers (Brussels 1873 – 1960 Brussels) was first a decorator and then went to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bruges. He was co-founder of the Le Sillon group in 1893 together with J. Lambeaux an...

The powerful Salon

The Salon was (and is) a magical concept in art. Reputations were made and broken here, especially when Paris was the cultural capital of Europe. The first salon, l'exposition, took place in 1648 a...

Art village Laren

From the mid-19th century, paint was available in tubes and this made it possible to paint outdoors; the environment mattered and applying the paint was faster (and less refined and precise) than i...

Detailed bolster Nic Jonk

Nic Jonk (Schermerhorn 1928-1994 Alkmaar) and spent his childhood in Langedijk where his mother had a grocery store after the father of the house died. To the great shame of the family, he left for...