Gustaaf Prils - Ets. titel onbekend oplage 1/1. - Sold

Gustaaf Prils received his training at the Academy in Ghent with Gaston Pauwels and then worked in the studios of Achille Lammens and Camille D'Havé. Prils worked both figuratively and abstractly. His themes are the beauty of the female body, city views and landscapes, still lifes, but also the abstract play of lines and color areas. His works are well-constructed, condensed compositions, with a sense for structure and balance of the composition, good leaf filling and correct color compositions. His works are sometimes Cubist and sometimes Expressionist, essentially he is independent of any theory. Between 1940 and 1945, he was a member of the Faungroep, a group of young people, mainly students, who met regularly at the initiative of Paul Rogghé to talk about art, culture and literature. Later he worked at the Graphic Gallery Rosa Roos in Ghent. After 1960 he devoted himself to filmmaking and from 1979 he gave drawing and painting lessons to adults. Together with the painters Roger De Cuyper, Richard Foncke, Jaques Vermeulen, Marcel Ysewijn, Hugo De Clercq, Amedee Cortier, Gaston Homblé, Pierre Van Fleteren and Pierre Vlerick, Gustaaf Prils was part of the Ghent artists' group around the literary and artistic magazine Het Antenneke. (1954-1959).