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Englebert Van Anderlecht

Brussels 1918 - 1961
Lyrical & gestual abstract painter
Englebert Van Anderlecht, who is rightly considered as one of the most important and influential belgian abstract painters of the XXth century, was born in Brussels in 1918. From 1935 to 1942 he studied at the Academy of St-Josse-ten-Noode in Brussels, where he met fellow artists Gaston Bertrand, Lismonde and Louis Van Lint. From 1941 to 1943 Van Anderlecht participated at the "Young artists salon" in Brussels together with Luc Peire.

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Large nude 1946 Charcoal drawing 100 x 65 cm Signed lower right
The water mill 1953 Wash and ink drawing 44 x 56 cm Exhibited Gallery Apollo Brussels 1955
Composition 1953 Charcoal drawing 85 x 60 cm Exhibited at Bochum museum in 1962
The gasometers 1954 Charcoal drawing 71 x 99 cm
Composition 1954 Washed ink drawing 65 x 50 cm Exhibited at Bochum museum ( Germany ) in 1962
Composition 1954 Washed ink drawing 70 x 50 cm
Composition 1955 Washed ink drawing 44 x 56 cm
Composition 1955 Washed ink drawing 44 x 56 cm
Composition 1956 Charcoal drawing Exhibited at Bochum museum in 1962
Shadow 1957 Oil on canvas 145 x 115 cm Exhibited Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels 1958, Ixelles Museum 1968, Museum of Modern Art Brussels 1990
Le gris-gris 1958 Bold pencil drawing 99 x 69 cm
Abstract composition 1959 Oil on canvas

Biography

 

Englebert Van Anderlecht

His first solo exhibition was held in 1955 at the famous Gallery Apollo in Brussels directed by Robert Delevoy.
In 1958-59 Van Anderlecht joined the "Peinture Partagée" ( shared painting ) experiment together with poet and art critic Jean Dypréau,  artist Serge Vandercam and Jean Verbruggen. Van Anderlecht got in touch with the G 58 group of artists in Antwerp.
In 1960 Van Anderlecht continued his experiments in Jef Verheyen's studio in Antwerp together with poets Jean Dypréau, Ivo Michiels and Guy Vaes, who wrote texts for each "Shared Painting".
In october of the same year Van Anderlecht co-signed the "New flemish school" manifesto together with Jef Verheyen, Jan Dries, Vic Gentils, Guy Mees and Guy Vandenbranden.
The artist, who became seriously ill during that period, passed away in Brussels in march 1961. Later that year, he received posthumously the Olivetti prize.

After the artist's passing several important museum exhibitions have been held, a.o. in Bochum (Germany, 1962), the Ixelles Museum
(1968), the Museum of Modern Art in Brussels (1990) etc..

GROUP 2 GALLERY has organized two key exhibitions of the artist - in 2003 and in 2009 - and his works are regularly presented in group and thematic exhibitions at the gallery.

2003    Antoine Mortier & Englebert Van Anderlecht :  Sign & Gesture 
2009    Englebert Van Anderlecht : works of the 1950's
2015    Group 2 Gallery : 25 years of passion for art
2016    Lyrical abstraction
                From Rubens to Michaux
2017   The belgian industrial heritage

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