Ernest Albert - At the Auction

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Ernest Albert is a Belgian artist who was born in 1900 in Berchem/Antwerp and who died in 1976 in Kalmthout. He was a painter, draftsman, watercolourist and gouachist. Educated at the Academy in Antwerp under the direction of Van Der Veken (1912-1918), at the Higher Institute in Antwerp under the direction of F. Courtens (1918-1922). Realised portraits, nudes, still lifes, landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes. After having made a series of Scheldt views, under the influence of F. Hens, he shows around 1927 more sense for impressionistic colour analysis; after that he builds constructions with colour planes. In the 1930s he was temporarily influenced by the heavy colour palette of Permeke. From 1932 onwards broad compositions arise in sturdy construction and bright colours. Co-founder of the Kring Moderne Kunst, with which he exhibited regularly (1927-1935). He was a member of the Kring Als Ik Kan (1946-1957). In 1938 he discovered the village of Ponsas in the South of France and from that moment on his palette brightened up completely. He effortlessly found inspiration in and around the village and was fascinated by the rhythmically rolling landscape. From 1946 he was a teacher at the Academy in Antwerp and from 1949 to 1965 director of the Academy in Mechelen. His work can be found in the Museum in Antwerp. Mentioned in BAS I and Two centuries of signatures by Belgian artists. (Piron)