Sebregts Lode

Lode (Leopold) Sebregts was a Belgian artist, born in Antwerp in 1906 and deceased there in 2002. He worked as a painter, watercolourist, pastellist, draughtsman, printmaker, glass painter, sculptor, designer of sets and costumes for the KNS, and creator of posters, book illustrations and occasional graphic work. He received his training at the Academy and the Higher Institute in Antwerp under the guidance of Is. Opsomer, A. Saverys and Ed. Pellens. He taught at the Municipal Institute for Decorative Arts and Crafts in Antwerp and was also associated with the Studio Herman Teirlinck. He produced interiors, still lifes, portraits, nudes, as well as city views of Antwerp and scenes along the River Scheldt. His palette, initially dominated by brown tones, evolved towards a vivid and highly contrasting range of colours. His oeuvre can be divided into four periods: a classical phase, an impressionist phase, a short abstract period and finally a phase of expressive colour. He also emerged as a master of the églomisé technique, or reverse glass painting. In 1958 he designed and directed the Giants’ Parade in Antwerp. In 1977 Lode Sebrechts played the role of Rubens in a film devoted to the artist. He exhibited, among other events, at the Quadrennial Exhibition in Antwerp in 1947. His work is represented in the Print Room and the Museum in Antwerp, including a reverse glass painting for the cathedral dated 1961. He is listed in BAS II and in Two Centuries of Signatures of Belgian Artists. (Piron)