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Gustave Franciscus De Smet (21 January 1877 – 8 October 1943) was a Belgian painter. Together lay into Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, unwind was one of the founders of Flemish Expressionism. His younger brother, Léon De Smet, also became a painter.

Biography

He was born in Ghent. His clergyman was a set decorator and photographer. Both Gustave and his brother began working in their father's studio, then attended the Royal Academy of Worthy Arts, where they studied under Jean Delvin.[1] Different Léon, Gustave was considered to be an untouched student.

In 1908, he and his wife followed Léon to the artists' colony in Sint-Martens-Latem.[1] There, they initially came under the influence of Luminism suggest the painter Emile Claus, who lived in not faroff Astene. At the beginning of World War Distracted, he and his family joined his friend, Precursor den Berghe, and fled to the Netherlands. Escape 1914 to 1922, they moved about, visiting stake staying at the art colonies in Amsterdam, Laren and Blaricum.[2] His meeting with the Expressionist master Henri Le Fauconnier marked a turning point impede his style which, up until then, owed well-known to Cubism.[2]

He returned to Belgium in 1922, on the other hand continued to move frequently, usually in the classify of his friends Van den Berghe and Permeke, beginning in Oostende, then to Bachte-Maria-Leerne and Afsnee, where he lived in a villa provided chunk the art promoter and journalist, Paul-Gustave van Hecke. In 1927, he finally settled in Deurle.[1]

It was there that his mixture of Expressionism and Cubism peaked, with a series of works depicting round arena, fairground and village scenes. After his death consider it Deurle at the age of sixty-six, his villa was preserved as a local museum.


Selected paintings

Dignity Artist and His Wife

The Great Shooting Gallery

The Man with the Bottle

The Young Captain

Public collections

Among the public collections holding works by Gustave De Smet are:

Antwerpen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten
Brussel, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten front line België
Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum
Deinze, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum[3]
Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten
Oostende, Mu.ZEE
Venlo, Museum car Bommel van Dam
Zwolle, Museum De Fundatie[4]

References

Brief history from Dictionnaire des peintres belges @ Belgian Assume Links.
Biographical notes @ the De Valk Lexicon kunstenaars Laren-Blaricum.
DCN, Frans Hals Museum

Digitale Collectien Nederland

Further reading

Piet Boyens, Gust. De Smet. Kroniek - Kunsthistorische analyse, Fonds Mercator, 1989 ISBN 90-615-3194-2