Albert Van Dyck (25 May 1902 – 27 March 1951) was a Belgian painter. He painted

genre works Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, ...

, figures, portraits, and

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. Van Dyck was also an engraver, as well as a watercolorist.

Biography

Albert Van Dyck was born in

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, on 25 May 1902. When Van Dyck started out as an artist, '' Vlaamse expressionisme'',

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expressionism Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

, had become the authoritative art movement in the Flemish art world through the Latem Schools. Initially, Van Dyck evolved, via a luminist style, into a purely pictorial painting style, in which he paid particular attention to the figures of children and to the

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landscape, especially the surroundings of

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and

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, where he had moved. He and other Flemish artists, such as

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, also reacted to the evolution of expressionism, which they perceived as excessive. Their art has been described as '' Animisme'' by critics. In his artistic training, Albert Van Dyck studied at the

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and at the ''Institut Supérieur'' in

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, under teachers Isidoor Opsomer,

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and

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. In 1932 he founded his own free Academy in Antwerp. He had, among others, as a pupil. In 1949 he became a professor of drawing at the Higher Institute (''Institut Supérieur'') in that city, where he himself had studied. The Albert Van Dyck Museum was opened in Schilde on 4 October 1997. The museum holds 298 works by Van Dyck on loan from the Flemish Community. File:Charles De Coster, print by Albert Van Dyck, 1927, Print cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), S.III 77616.jpg, Charles De Coster, print by Albert Van Dyck, 1927, Print cabinet of the

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, S.III 77616 File:Woman doing her hair, print by Albert Van Dyck, s.d., Print cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), S.IV 26396.jpg, Woman doing her hair, print by Albert Van Dyck, s.d., Print cabinet of the

, S.IV 26396 File:Children at breakfast, print by Albert Van Dyck, 1935, Print cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), S.IV 22271.jpg, Children at breakfast, print by Albert Van Dyck, 1935, Print cabinet of the

, S.IV 22271 File:Group of children, drawing by Albert Van Dyck, s.d., Print cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), F 7632.jpg, Group of children, drawing by Albert Van Dyck, s.d., Print cabinet of the

, F 7632 File:Landscape in Uitkerke, drawing by Albert Van Dyck, 1945, Print cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR), F 7630.jpg, Landscape in Uitkerke, drawing by Albert Van Dyck, 1945, Print cabinet of the

, F 7630

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dyck, Albert van 1902 births 1951 deaths 20th-century Belgian painters People from Turnhout

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