Frans Depooter, born in

Mons Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...

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, in 1898, was a Belgian painter. He died in 1987 in Maffe (

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, Belgian

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) at age 89. Depooter began working at age 13 in his family's business (his father was a decorator in

), where he met Anto-Carte, Léon Navez, and Léon Devos. In 1928, Depooter, Anto-Carte, Navez, and Devos became co-founders of the

Groupe Nervia Founded in at the instigation of the insurance broker Léon Eeckman and of the painters Anto-Carte and Louis Buisseret, the Groupe Nervia was a Belgian artistic circle, the purpose of which was to foster Walloon art, obscured by the Flemish Ex ...

. In 1923, Frans Depooter married the painter

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, taking painting courses at the Art Schools of

( E. Motte) and

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( Delville,

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) soon after. Recognized for his work, Depooter received several awards (among others: Gold Medal at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs (

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) in

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in 1925, Prize of the Académie Royale de

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in 1969, Gold Medal of the Mérite Artistique Européen) and held the position of Director of the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (

) Art School from 1944 onwards. A poet at heart, Frans Depooter deepened his consistently representational style in accordance with his nature. His stylized still lifes, expressionist landscapes, and portraits gave way very early to refined works of an apparent simplicity. His portraits on plain backgrounds isolate themselves in the model's dream or inner life. His flowers compose fragile and tender bouquets. His landscapes, often treated in half tints and transposed by a shaded light, testify to a discrete sensitivity (he was called the songster of the Brabant Wallon). Frans Depooter's talent displays a search for measure, refinement, and poetry.

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Fonds Léon Eeckman
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Depooter, Frans 1898 births 1987 deaths People from Mons 20th-century Belgian painters Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts alumni