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Antoine "Anto" Carte (8 December 1886 - 15 February 1954) was a Belgian painter.
Antoine Carto was born in
Mons in 1886. His father was a
joiner
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.
Anto Carte was first apprenticed to François Depooter, an interior painter, and then studied art at the academies of Mons and Brussels, and in Paris. He started working in a Symbolist style, but after the First World War became a
Flemish Expressionist painter in the style of the painters of the group of
Sint-Martens-Latem
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like
Gustave Van de Woestijne
Gustave Van de Woestijne (; 2 August 1881 – 21 April 1947) was a Belgian expressionist painter.
He belonged to the so-called "First Group of Latem", a group of artists who worked in the rural village of Sint-Martens-Latem on the banks ...
. In 1917 he had his first exposition, of illustrations he made for a work by
Emile Verhaeren
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. He exposed together with the Flemish Expressionists at the 1923
Salon d'Automne
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in Paris. He had a solo exhibition in Pittsburgh, at the
Carnegie Institute, in 1924, where all 60 paintings were sold.
Retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Mons were organised in 1949 and in 1995.
Later in his career, he designed many posters and stained glass windows, including in 1927 the windows for a new building at the
University of Mons-Hainaut. He also designed a 50 Belgian Francs banknote.
In 1928, he founded the art group
Groupe Nervia together with
Louis Buisseret. From 1932 on, he was a professor at the
La Cambre
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It was founded as the ''Institut supérieur des Arts décoratifs'' ...
school and at the
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
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in Brussels.
He lived most of his career in
Braine-le-Château
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On January 1, 2006, Braine-le-Château had a total population of 9,446. The total area is 22.70&n ...
, and died in
Ixelles
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in 1954.
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Les amis d'Anto Carte
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1886 births
1954 deaths
20th-century Belgian painters
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts alumni
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts faculty