Thevenet Louis

Louis Thevenet was a Belgian artist, born in Bruges in 1874 and died in Halle in 1930. He was a painter and watercolorist. He was also the younger brother of Pierre Thévenet. His parents moved to the Sablon in Brussels in 1876. Pierre Scoupreman also lived in the same house, who became Louis Thévenet's tutor in 1903. He also developed as an autodidact. He worked here and there as an assistant cook on an English cargo ship until he met A. Oleffe in Nieuwpoort. Oleffe urged him to choose painting definitively. For ten years he lived with Oleffe in Nieuwpoort and maintained contacts with the Académie Libre and L'Effort in Brussels. He exhibited for the first time at Labeur in Brussels in 1903. In 1904 he became a member of La Libre Esthétique. In Brussels he befriended Ch. Dehoy and he started to work quite impressionistically. In 1913 an individual exhibition was held at Giroux. In 1914 he settled in Halle. He realized interiors and still lifes. His works appear intimate and uncomplicated due to his predilection for everyday life. His oeuvre consists of a thousand works in which the human figure is rarely present. Work by Louis Thévenet can be found in the Museums in Antwerp, Ixelles and Brussels. He is listed in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists i, BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)