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Belgische schilder Jean Baes

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Jean Baes (Jean-Baptiste) was a Belgian artist who was born in Brussels in 1848 and who died in Ixelles in 1914. He was an architect, watercolorist, draftsman and interior designer. Brother of Charles, Henri and Pierre Baes. He took lessons in various studios at the Academy in Brussels: from 1862 evening courses in drawing and decoration, worked in the studio of Albert Charles (1867-1871) and followed the architecture course. After finishing his studies, he was almost immediately appointed as a teacher at the Academy. Participated in countless decoration works, built temporary pavilions for the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1880, for the International and Colonial Exhibition in Amsterdam in 1883. Maker of fifty color plates for Tours et Tourtelles historiques de la Belgique (1882). Became president of the Société des Aquarellistes et Aquafortistes in Brussels and regularly exhibited with it. As an architect he also designed monuments: the Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg (KVS) in Brussels, a villa for Alfred Verwee in Knokke. He was a teacher (1877-1900) and afterwards director of the Académie Libre in Brussels. Work in the Print Room in Brussels and in the Museum in Ostend. Mentioned in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists I, BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. Source: Piron.