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Belgische kunstenaar Désiré Naeyaert

Naeyaert Désiré

Désiré Naeyaert was a Belgian artist born in Brussels in 1909 and died there in 1990. He was a painter, etcher and draftsman. Education at the Academy in Brussels, conducted by Emile Fabry, Jean Delville, Herman Richir, Van Landuyt and Alfred Bastien. Experimented with etching plates from 1926. Pol Craps taught him the basics of engraving. Became a teacher of drawing, painting (oil and watercolor) and etching. From the 1930s he taught at the Sint-Bonifacius and Sint-Jan Berchmansinstituut in Brussels, in the years 1946 to 1959 at Sint-Lukas in Schaarbeek and in the years 1946 to 1974 at the Provincial Institute of Arts and Crafts in Nivelles. Mastered all subjects: landscapes, still lifes and portraits but prefered cityscapes, as can be seen in his album Bruxelles (1945), a folder composed of fourteen unpublished etchings, with a foreword by Dhr. Lebeer, then chief curator of the Print Room (K.B., Brussels). In 1936 he was invited to the Twentieth Venetian Biennale, where he showed one of his masterpieces, Hamilcar combattant les mercenaires (650 x 650), after Salammbo by G. Flaubert. Another masterpiece Saint François parlant aux oiseaux (740 x 600) was exhibited at the Spring Salons in Ghent in 1937 and in Brussels in 1938. For the booklovers he illustrated the Christmas story of Den Os and den Ezel by Ernest Claes with five etchings and the etched portrait of the writer. Was a committee member of the GOB (Gravure Originale Belge) and participated in international exhibitions. From the press, regarding his painting: “D.N. has the ability to see with new eyes. The matter of a simple white earthenware bowl touches him, an insect carries him, a straw, the patina of a piece of furniture, a bird transports him into a world of wonder. " Work in the Print Room and the Chalcography in Brussels, in the Print Room of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, in the Museums in Tournai, Rotterdam, Cairo, Montevideo. Mentioned in BAS II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (PIRON)