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Emile Thysebaert, een Belgisch figuratief kunstschilder

Thysebaert Emile

Emile Thysebaert was a Belgian artist, born in Ghent in 1873 and died in Anderlecht in 1963. He was a painter, pastelist, engraver and sculptor. He was trained at the Academy in Ghent under the guidance of J. Delvin and L. Tytgadt and at the academy in Antwerp under the guidance of A. and J. De Vriendt. He preferably painted and etched folk subjects, cityscapes, marines, folk types, workers and fishermen. He used a freely conceived realistic design, demonstrating a strong social attitude. From the press: “At E.T. there is often an undertone of melancholy and even a certain sadness caused by the world around him, which underlies his work. He preferred to paint the poor, the dockers or the fishermen. Cityscapes and street scenes, a folk ball and demolition works also attracted him. The horses in his paintings are placed on an equal footing with the workers. They are equally jaded by the never-ending work.” Emile Thysebaert traveled to Spain after the First World War. There he discovered light and color. Between the two World Wars, numerous navies, cityscapes, market scenes and snapshots of daily life were created, which now reflected a certain joie de vivre. As a sculptor he designed, among other things, a bust of Minister Destrée. We can find one of his murals in the Church of Our Lady in Curegem, and we can find his work in the Charlier Museum in Brussels. He is mentioned in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)