Project Description

Woodcut - Allocated : 28/100

overall dimensions : 27 cm x 19 cm

Image size : 14 cm x 11,5 cm

Signed lower right : Frans Masereel

The working life

Frans Masereel (Blankengerge 1889 – Avignon 1972)

Painter, designer, watercolourist and printmaker, but above all xylographe. Also creator of sets and theater costumes. Also realized some mosaics. Is the most committed of the five renovators woodcut in Flanders after the GMI.

All his work reflects his social commitment and his pacifism. Moved with his parents in Ghent 1906. A few months J.Delvin student at the Academy (1907-1908). undertakes, at the initiative of his master, study tours in Germany and Great Britain (1909).

Paris

Then moves to Paris, where he created his first woodcuts. Visit Tunisia fixed 1910.Se in Geneva 1915. Joined the peace movement. Pass the war in Switzerland. Created numerous illustrations for the magazine The tablets (1916-19) and the Journal Leaf (1917-20). Illustrates many literary works.

Returns to Paris and settled in Montmartre 1921. Makes his first paintings in 1923-24.

The trips

He undertakes a long study trip through Central Europe. On his return, he created a series of watercolors that discuss life in Paris and suburbs (1925-27).

He resumed long journeys along the Wolga in the years 30, it evokes in the album From black to white.

He was a professor at the Institute of Decorative Arts in Saarbrücken (1947-1951). Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale (1950). Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium (1951).

He is buried in the Campo Santo monumental cemetery in St. Amandsberg (Thinking). His name is given to the center of graphic studies of the Flemish Community in Kasterlee, Center Frans Masereel. Retrospectives in Blankenberge (1969) and Antwerp (KASKA 1958).

His works are in many Cabinets Prints, and the. Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and The Hague, and the Museums of Ghent and Liège.

Sources : Arto

http://www.registre-des-arts.com/peinture/frans-masereel-1889/index.shtml

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