Blickx Tony-Luc

Tony-Luc Blickx was a Belgian artist who was born in Mechelen in 1926 and who died there in 2000. He was a painter, sculptor and graphic artist. Education in sculpture and painting at the Academy in Mechelen under his father Theo Blickx, G. Reusens and K. Bonaugure (1937-1946), at the Higher Institute in Antwerp. Realized portraits, landscapes, flowers, marines, still lifes. Neo-expressionist design. From the press: (TLB is one of the most poetic among the painters of his generation. His work is one great interest in the landscape and in the people he depicts in dreamy portraits, vivid in color. This post-expressionist uses drawings in India ink also charcoal and wax technique.” As a sculptor, he designed the statue Our Lady of the Disembarkation (concrete), which is located in the City Park in Aarschot (1949). Was a teacher at the Academy in Mechelen from 1959 to 1989. Work to be done in the Museum in Mechelen Mentioned in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists (Piron)