Piet Verhaert
Piet Verhaert, also known as Pieter Verhaert, birthname is Petrus Josephus Verhaert[1] (Antwerp, 25 February 1852 – Oostduinkerke, 4 August 1908) was a Belgian painter and etcher painter of genre scenes, cityscapes. interiors, figures and portraits. He was also a designer of decorativee panels. He was a member of Les XX, an association founded on 28 October 1883 in Brussels by artists who were unhappy with the conservative policies of the official academic Salon.[2]
Life and career[edit]
Verhaert was a painter and etcher of townscapes, interiors, figures and portraits. He was also a notable painter of decorative panels. Trained at the Academy of Antwerp, he originally studied sculpting but switched to painting. He was part of a group of young artists known as the "Van Beers Clique", led by Jan van Beers. This group included the artists Alexander Struys and Jef Lambeaux. They were well known for their mischievous and eccentric behaviour, which included walking around Antwerp dressed in historic costumes.[3]
He travelled to The Netherlands, Italy and later Spain. He debuted in 1873 at the Triannual Salon van Antwerpen. He stayed for a year in Paris in 1876.
During his time in Spain (1882–83), he made copies from Velázquez. He was a member of Les XX ("The Twenty"). He was among a large number of Antwerp artists who established the 'Vereeniging der Antwerpsche etsers' or 'l'Association des aquafortistes anversois' ("Association of Antwerp Etchers") founded in 1880. The co-founders included Willem Linnig the Elder, Willem Linnig the Elder, Léon Abry, Constant Cap, Flor Crabeels, Edgard Farasyn, Jean Pierre François Lamorinière, Egide François Leemans, Joseph Van Luppen, Isidoor Meyers, Jean Baptiste Pierre Michiels, Karel Ooms, Max Rooses, Hendrik Frans Schaefels, Lucas Victor Schaefels, Jan Stobbaerts, Frans Van Kuyck, A.-J. Verhoeven, Jozef Bal and Charles Verlat. The Vereeniging published an annual album containing graphic works of its members.[4]
He was a teacher at the Academy of Antwerp from 1886.[2] When Pieter Van Havermaet died on 8 May 1897, Verhaert succeeded him as a teacher at the Antwerp Academy in the subjects of 'Drawing of the figure after life and after antiques' and 'shadowed drawing after plaster, bust, etc'.[5]
Work[edit]
He painted, predominantly, genre scenes of the 17th and 18th centuries. From the beginning of the 1880s he painted his own designs, working in plein-air style. Later, brown became the dominant colour of his work. He is best known for his depictions of the old street districts of Antwerp, was considered to be a powerful colourist and was a virtuoso with a pencil. He painted a fresco in the Antwerp City Hall (1899) and made an album of etchings on the old districts of Antwerp. His works may be found in the museums of Antwerp, Brussels, Doornik and Ghent.
Selected paintings[edit]
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Forger at Work -
Till Eulenspiegel Singing -
Courtyard at a Farm in Flanders -
Another!
References[edit]
- ^ Piet Verhaert at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
- ^ a b Biography of Verhaert at Schoonselhof
- ^ "Jan van Beers, Belgian (1852–1927)". rogallery.com. ROgallery. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
- ^ Jules Dujardin and Josef Middeler, L'art flamand, A. Boitte, Brussels, 1896, p. 174 (in French)
- ^ Jeroen Boel, Pieter Van Havermaet, kunstschilder (Sint-Niklaas 16 januari 1834 – Antwerpen 8 mei 1897), Annalen van de Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Land van Waas, deel 120, 2017
External links[edit]
Media related to Piet Verhaert at Wikimedia Commons
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