VAN ZEVENBERGHEN Georges
THE APPRENTICE
Oil on panel: 39.5 x 31.5 cm / 15.5 x 12.4 in
Signed upper right
Intimist, realist and post-impressionist painter and watercolourist of portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, nudes and interiors; watercolourist.
Georges Van Zevenberghen often worked with clair obscur-effects. He was a pupil of the Molenbeek School of Drawing and the Brussels Academy, where he became a teacher himself. He also attended Jan Stobbaerts’ studio. He exhibited at the Brussels Triennale.
He was a member of Labeur, Pour l’Art and the Royal Belgian Academy.
Period:
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (Brussels) 1877 - St-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels) 1968
Belgian School
Exhibitions:
Antwerp - Barcelona - Brussels - Mons - St-Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels) - Riga
Literature:
P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Flower Painters; Belgian and Dutch Artists born between 1750 and 1880", Knokke 1995, p. 414.