Karel Lerberghe, van - winter landscape - Sold

Karel Van Lerberghe was a Belgian artist who was born in 1893 in Woumen and died in 1953 in Ghent. He was a painter. Education at the Academies in Bruges and Ghent. Painted poetic landscapes, harvest scenes, cityscapes, atmospheric seascapes. Spent the First World War on the Yser Front and was a member of the Kunst aan de Yser circle. He sketched numerous war scenes there. Initially found his inspiration in the West Flemish landscape with the gently undulating plains and the endless sky above. Was often enchanted by the landscape under the snow. Settled in Ghent and also started painting cityscapes (Ghent, Oudenaarde, Kortrijk) and more sporadic navies. Impressionistic color palette. Later also stayed in the south of France. At the end of his life, small still lifes were also created. From the press: 'He possessed the secret of making the flat land undulate and swell with a cut, melodious line, and above it to dome the grandiose play of clouds or enormous smooth gray skies' and 'His canvases are like a kind of crystallization of peace, of tranquility, and they were transposed by the painter's temperament and fine imagination onto a plan where all beauty takes on a contemplative character.' Work in the Museums in Brussels, Ghent, Leuven, among others. Mentioned in the Lexicon of West Flemish visual artists VI, CRICK, BAS II and Two centuries of signatures of Belgian artists. (Piron)