Crombé Luc Peter

Luc Peter Crombé was a Belgian artist who was born in 1920 in Opwijk and who died in 2005 in Sint-Martens-Latem. He was a painter, draftsman, glazier, ceramist, designer of jewelery and tapestries. Education at the Academy and at Sint-Lucas in Ghent, at the Higher Institute in Antwerp under J. Verdegem and C. Permeke, art history at the Louvre in Paris, graphic arts in Frankfurt. Worked as a restorer and fresco painter in Venice, Rome, Paris and Frankfurt. In addition to religious subjects, he finds his inspiration in the child, the landscape and especially people. He softened the color, discovered in Spain and Morocco, as an animist. Because of his introduction to Renaissance art in Italy, his attention became more focused on the drawing, so the line came into its own and the color was reduced to a minimum. From the press: 'The method of transparent thin layers on top of each other gives it a greater color intensity and also a liveliness that immediately appeals'. Settled in Sint-Martens-Latem, then in Deurle. Was a teacher at the Berchmans Institute in Ghent. Work in the museum in Brussels, among others. Mentioned in Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (piron)