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Title: L'église St. Nicolas Gand
MSK - Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Exhibition 22.03-29.06.25
https:www.mskgent.be/tentoonstellingen/jules-de-bruycker
2 ETCHINGS
Numbered with number 1 (1st edition) and number 2
Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Period 1936 - 1938
Stylishly framed with a wooden frame, beautiful elegant passe-partout, work behind glass
Work and frame in good condition
The attached photos form an integral part of the description of the offer.
BIO:
Jules De Bruycker (Ghent, March 29, 1870 - ibid., September 5, 1945) is considered, like James Ensor, one of the most important Flemish etchers.
Old Ghent and especially the St Nicholas Church were his main source of inspiration. An exhibition of his works was organised in this church in 2008.
He became a professor at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp. He worked for a while in the same studio as Charles-René Callewaert. During the First World War he stayed in London and acquired world fame there with his war pictures. Typical of his art are depictions of old folk types, while his remarkable cathedrals (Rouen, Amiens, Antwerp) caused a sensation. Also folk scenes in Paris, Brussels and Antwerp depict everyday, often impoverished life with virtuosity.
The famous Ghent artist Jules De Bruycker (1870-1945) made more than 300 drawings and etchings of his beloved St. Nicholas Church.
He approached the building from all sorts of perspectives. Sixty works from his oeuvre can now be admired in the church.