Dille Frans
Frans Dille was a Belgian artist who was born in Antwerp in 1909 and who died there in 1999. He was a graphic artist, draftsman, painter and designer of theater costumes and sets. Education at the Academy and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Antwerp. Debuted as a woodcarver and in expressionist design under the influence of Masereel. Changed from woodcarving to drypoint engraving in 1944 and later to color lithograph. Evolved afterwards from the fringes of surrealism to abstraction. His extensive oeuvre shows a continuity, which is ensured by the artist's constant contacts with nature and with the life of his time. Constantly looking for the adequate graphic expression in an effort to transcend everything that troubled, obsess, tormented him. In the 1980s, he donated his almost complete graphic oeuvre to the Print Room in Antwerp. Was deputy director at the Municipal Institute for Decorative Arts and Crafts in Antwerp. Mentioned in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Pyron).