Crabbé Mil

Mil Crabbé (Tienen 1923 - 2004) • Painter. Education at the Academy in Tienen (1934-1944), at the Academy in Leuven under W. Paerels (1944-1945). Created figures, portraits, landscapes, and beach scenes, among others. From the press: 'Crabbé undoubtedly achieves the purest expression with a number of landscapes and paintings in which colors are the only means of composition. In these paintings, the imagination is restrained and the emotion is controlled and refined,' (J.B., 1966) and 'In a strong rhythmic context, M.C. sketches a flowing composition with a cylindrical trajectory of movement.' Behind the concealed wealth of forms, the spectator smells the bubbling blood of an unquenchable zest for life, (S.V., 1969) and further: 'His canvases are veiled in a haze that invites reflection at one moment, dreaming at another, and always makes a depiction of the theme more intimate.' (J.W., 1969). Was a teacher at the Academy in Tienen until 1961. Mentioned in BAS I and Two Centuries of Signatures of Belgian Artists. (Piron)