charles Counhaye - important Walloon expressionist - World War II "resistance" - signed - Sold

• Medium: mixed media (watercolor, gouache, pencil)
• Date: 1943
• Numbered:
• Signed: with white paint bottom left
• In good condition
• Titled: "resistance"
• Loose-leaf - sheet size 59 x 45 cm image size: 54 x 40 cm

Charles Counhaye was a Belgian artist born in 1884 in Verviers and died in 1971 in Brussels. He was a painter, draftsman, and watercolorist. He trained at the School of Decorative Arts in Verviers under Ransonnet and at the Academy in Brussels under Montald. He settled in Brussels. He became friends with the future protagonists of Brabant Fauvism, and his art at the time displayed both explosions of pure colors that disregarded contours and Cubist influences that appeared more constructive. He subsequently evolved towards a synthesis of form and controlled expressionism. He found his inspiration primarily in the human figure. His works bear witness to profound humanity and often display a social dimension. He created compositions with figures, nudes, portraits, and still lifes. He played a prominent role as an innovator of contemporary monumental and decorative art. He mentored the artists of the Force Murale Group. He often stayed in France and Spain. Designed stained glass windows and mosaics for the Abbey of Tongerlo (1920), six stained glass windows for the Church of Saint Christopher in Charleroi (1958), a large stained glass window for the Horticultural Institute in Gembloux (1960), and also designed tapestries and murals. Was a teacher at the Lycée Française in Brussels and from 1927 to 1949 at Ter Kameren in Brussels. Mentioned in Two Centuries of Signatures of Belgian Artists. (PIRON)