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 Paintings of Theo Van Rysselberghe :. | signac on his boat | Family in an Orchard | Four Bathers | The Sisters of the Painter Schlobach | The Woman in White |
Related Artists:
Karl Kaspar Pitz
painted Portrait of a cleric a book in his right hand, by a marble bust in before 1795
ELIAERTS, Jan Frans
Flemish painter (b. 1761, Antwerpen, d. 1848, Antwerpen)
Master of the View of st Gudule
active in Brussels 1470-1490