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Gustave de Smet (1877-1943)

Aliases: Gustave Desmet; Gustave "de" Smet; Gustave Franciscus "de" Smet

Professions: Figure painter; Painter; Still life painter; Landscape painter; Wood cutter

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    GUSTAVE DE SMET (1877-1943)

    GUSTAVE DE SMET (1877-1943)

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    Meisje in het blauw - Girl in blue

    Meisje in het blauw - Girl in blue

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    Gustave De Smet (1877-1943)

    Gustave De Smet (1877-1943)

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    Gustave de Smet (1877-1943) , het echtpaar - le couple au village

    Gustave de Smet (1877-1943) , het echtpaar - le couple au village

Gustave de Smet Biography

(b ghent, 21 jan 1877; d deurle, 8 oct 1943). belgian painter and printmaker. he studied from 1889 to 1896 at the académie royale des beaux-arts in ghent, and together with his younger brother léon de smet (1881–1966), also a painter, he helped his father jules de smet with the decoration of inns, stores and fairground buildings. from c. 1902 gustave de smet spent time in deurle and with frits van den berghe at laethem-saint-martin near ghent, where he was part of the second generation of artists who sought out the rural surroundings of the river leie to live and paint. from 1911 he once again lived in ghent. when world war i broke out he fled with his wife and son to the netherlands and worked there in close contact with van den berghe, who had also left belgium. he stayed in amsterdam and in the villages of laren and blaricum.

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