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De Belgische kunstschilder Pierre Verbeke

Verbeke Pierre

Pierre Verbeke was a Belgian artist who was born in Ostend in 1895 and who died there in 1962. He was a painter. Son of Henri, brother of Léon Verbeke. Education at the Academies in Bruges and Antwerp. Pupil of Henri Permeke, Pierre Raoux and Fl. Van Acker. Fellow student and friend of Karel Van Lerberghe and René De Pauw, among others. Undertook a study trip to Paris. Painted marines, harbor views, fishing scenes, landscapes. Succeeded brilliantly in displaying the play of the clouds and the foaming waves. From the press: "P.V. has managed to capture the synthesis of the eternally mobile in the sea.” (1941) mentioned in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (piron)