Van Saene Maurits
Maurits Van Saene (Maurice) was a Belgian artist who was born in Ninove in 1919 and who died in Aalst in 2000. He was a painter, draftsman and graphic artist. Education at Sint-Lukas in Schaerbeek (1935-1940) and at the Institut National des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1940-1942). Also worked from 1944 to 1946 in the studio of J. Brusselmans in Brussels. They rented their model together and painted there together as well. Godecharle Prize in 1945. Worked at the Academia Belgica in Rome in 1947. Initially painted mainly still lifes, figures, nudes, in line with Flemish expressionism and sometimes placed in a single striking line, a line that conjured up both the profile and the relief, the volume of the figure on the sheet. Afterwards he concentrated more and more on landscape painting, which was accompanied by an evolution towards abstraction. From 1965 he fell under the spell of the sea and the beach: not seascapes, but the sea itself in all its concentration was painted. From the press about this: “The sea at M.V.S. is an accumulation of horizontal color areas and stripes without beginning or end. Only the frame limits the limitless imagination. And as the concentration of the artists intensifies over the years, the sea of V.S. to the most sober possible essence.” In 1958 he made fresco paintings for the pavilion Civitas Dei at the World Exhibition in Brussels. Was teacher of drawing and applied arts at the Academy in Leuven (1942-1946), teacher of drawing and painting at Sint-Lukas in Schaerbeek (1952-1984). Work in the Museums in Antwerp, Aalst, Bruges, Ypres, Brussels, Liège, Ostend, among others. Mentioned in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. Source: Piron