Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie Caroline De Weert (27 May 1867 – 12 May 1950) was a

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painter. She would paint in the Luminist style.

Life

Weert was born in

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as Anna Virginie Caroline Cogen. Her family were prosperous with a high regard for nature, art and in particular watercolours. Her grandfather was the writer Karel Lodewijk Ledeganck and her uncles, Alphons and Felix Cogen, were successful painters. Her father died when she was two so she grew up in the care of her extended family and in particular her mother and grandmother.Anna De Weert
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Each summer she was taken to the family's home at

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in the

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. This summer holiday became an annual tradition all her life. She first formally studied art at the Academy of Ghent. In 1891 she married, , who was a politician. In the 1890s she was a private (pro bono) student of the Belgian painter

Emile Claus Emile Claus (27 September 1849 – 14 June 1924) was a Belgian painter. Life Emile Claus was born on 27 September 1849, in Sint-Eloois-Vijve, a village in West Flanders (Belgium), at the banks of the river Lys. Emile was the twelfth child in ...

. She and her husband spent summers with him in the 1890s. In 1895 she acquired a new studio as she had bought a farm at

Afsnee Afsnee is a village in the Belgian province of East Flanders. It is part of the urban area of the province's capital city Ghent. It is situated at the banks of the river Lys. Maurice and Anna De Weert Anna De Weert, née Cogen; Anna Virginie C ...

near Ghent, beside the river Lys, which had belonged to a Dominican Monastery. left, "My Studio" in 1909/10 Claus painted her in a river scene in 1899. She recorded what her own studio in Afsnee looked like in about 1909. Anna Cogen was a productive artistDe Weert at RKD
/ref> and had a long association with the ''Cercle Artistique et Littéraire'' in her home town after she first exhibited there in 1895.

Death and legacy

She died in

in 1950. In her will she left the painting of her to the museum in Ghent together with a work by

George Minne George (Georges) Minne (born ''Georgius Joannes Leonardus Minne''; 30 August 1866 – 18 February 1941) was a Belgian artist and sculptor famous for his idealized depictions of man's inner spiritual conflicts, including the "Kneeling Youth" scu ...

and two old masters.

References

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