VISITING THE MUSEUM

Painter of landscapes of the Campine and genre scenes.

Henry Rul was a pupil of Guillaume Pouwelsen (1806 – 1891) in Middelburg and, for a couple of months, of Joseph Van Luppen in Antwerp. He made his debut at the Antwerp Salon. He was co-founder of ‘Als Ik Kan’ (1891) and treasorer of ‘Les XIII’.

Rul mainly worked in the Campine and the Antwerp region, but also in the Netherlands. Following the advice of Théodore Verstraete, he settled down in the countryside. Initially he painted grey, melancolic and realist canvases, but, under the influence of Henry Luyten, his palette lightened from 1890 on.

He succesfully exhibited his works in Edinburgh, Cologne, Chicago, Antwerp, Brussels, Lille and Port Adelaide.

The Antwerp Fine Arts Museum possesses three of his works: “Dunes”, “Spring” and “Woods”.

Retrospective at the Arts Center of Auderghem in 1993.