Vermeylen Antoon
Antoon Vermeylen was a Belgian artist born in Antwerp in 1931 and died in Budapest in 2012. He was a graphic artist, woodcarver, illustrator, designer of ex libris and stained glass artist. He trained at the Academy and the Higher Institute in Antwerp, at the Higher Institute for Printing of the Plantin Society in Antwerp and was a pupil of the stained glass artist Jan Wouters in Hove. The subjects of his stained glass windows show a great admiration for nature, for the richness of forms and colours of fish, birds, flowers and animals. He also knows how to capture people in his works in an ironic or playfully humorous way. Stained glass windows in the baptismal chapel of the Sint Antonius church in Brasschaat, in the Van Cuyk funeral home in Merksem. Victor Stuyvaert Prize for wood engraving in 1977, first prize for wood engraving Lucas Cranich in Germany in 1983. He was a teacher at the free Vesper drawing school in Merksem, at the technicum in Antwerp, at the Municipal drawing studio for Plastic and Applied art in Hove, at the Municipal Academy for Plastic arts in Merksem and at the Municipal Academy for Visual arts in Mersem/Antwerp. In 2007 he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and moved to Hungary with his wife Hermina Horvath. Mentioned in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists.