Blomme Alfons

Alfons Blomme was a Belgian artist from Roeselare who was born in 1889 and died in 1979. He was a painter and etcher. He first studied in Roeselare and then in Brussels, where he came into contact with the most important modern movements. There he was also influenced by Emile Claus and later also by surrealism. Alfons Blomme, like other artists, stayed in the Netherlands during the First World War. Prix de Rome in 1920. Visited Italy, was impressed by the light and the sea in Venice and experienced a Venetian period (1923-1930). Settled in De Haan in 1930 and built a studio there. His many travels inspired him to paint countless landscapes, cityscapes and buildings faces. From the press: “His way of painting has gradually developed into a typical way of short, nervous brush strokes: seen from close up hundreds, thousands of colored lines and stripes, next to and through each other, giving his work that lightness and that vibration that gives it a special charm. Without harming the prudence of the form and the composition. ” Was director of the Academy in Ostend between 1935 and 1940. Mentioned in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists III, CRICK, BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. Source: PIRON