Englebert Van Anderlecht
Major belgian abstract painter

 Englebert Van Anderlecht (Brussels 1918-1961)

"Large Nude" ca 1946, charcoal drawing, 100 x 65 cm
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"​Nude" ca 1946, charcoal drawing, 45 x 63 cm
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"The water mill" 1953, Wash & ink drawing, 44 x 56 cm
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"Composition 1953", charcoal drawing, 85 x 60 cm.
​Exhibited at Bochum museum, 1962
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"The gasometers" 1954, charcoal drawing, 71 x 99 cm
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"Industrial landscape" 1954, charcoal drawing;, 70 x 100 cm
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"The world of silence" 1954, washed ink drawing, 50 x 75 cm
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"Composition 1954", washed ink drawing, 70 x 50 cm
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"Untitled" 1954, charcoal drawing, 100 x 70 cm
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"Human figures" 1955, washed ink drawing, 44 x 56 cm
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"Composition 1955", ink drawing, 44 x 56 cm
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"Composition 1956", washed ink drawing, 65 x 50 cm.
Exhibited at Bochum museum, 1962
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"Composition 1956", charcoal drawing, 99 x 70 cm
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"Ombre - Shadow" 1957, oil on canvas, 145 x 115 cm
Exhibited at Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels 1958, Ixelles museum 1968, Royal museum of Fine Arts Brussels 1990
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"​Le gris-gris ou le sexe inutile" 1958, bold pencil drawing, 100 x 70 cm
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"Untitled 1959", oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm
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Opening of the exhibition "Peinture Partagée (Shared Painting)" at the Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, 1959.
Standing : collector Oscar Schellekens, art critic Jean Dypréau, M. Delruelle & Van Anderlecht.
Sitting : J. Van Anderlecht, P. Vermeylen and artists Serge Vandercam & Antoine Mortier.

Opening of the Van Anderlecht exhibition at Group 2 Gallery in 2009
Philip Lenaerts, Mrs Jean Dypréau & Jeannine Lenaerts
At the right  the "Peinture Partagée : Unir le geste à la parole" by Van Anderlecht & Dypréau.

​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.
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.
Van Anderlecht became seriously ill during that period and 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. His work was also shown in several group shows
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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