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Gustave De Smet

1877–1943 · Belgian

Born
1877 · Ghent
Died
1943 · Sint-Martens-Latem

19 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Gustave Franciscus De Smet was a Belgian painter and printmaker who, with Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, founded Flemish Expressionism. His development of an expressionist idiom was influenced by the Bergen School and German expressionists during his time in the Netherlands.

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Gustave Franciscus De Smet, also known as Gustaaf De Smet and Gust De Smet (21 January 1877 – 8 October 1943) was a Belgian painter and printmaker. Together with Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe, he was one of the founders of Flemish Expressionism. Some of the works of the Flemish expressionists bear a stylistic relationship to German expressionism through their use of distorted forms, coloration and dynamic compositions while others show cubist elements in their sense of balance, synthesis and construction. Before World War I, these artists were part of the second group of the Latem School, a loose group of artists working at various times in the rural Lys river area around Sint-Martens-Latem, south of Ghent. They aimed to innovate Belgian art by turning away from bourgeois art and drawing inspiration from nature or the live of workers and farmers. Key members of the group fled Belgium at the start of World War I to countries where they were exposed to the latest Modernist art trends. De Smet fled to the Netherlands, where his development of an expressionist idiom was influenced by the Bergen School, the first expressionist art movement in the Netherlands, as well as the German expressionists.

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Selected from 19 works by Gustave De Smet in the Collect24 Registry.

Gustave De Smet, Fair at Vrijdagmarkt in Ghent

Gustave De Smet

Fair at Vrijdagmarkt in Ghent, 1907

oil on canvas

42.9 × 49.2 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144844

Gustave De Smet, Farm

Gustave De Smet

Farm, 1939

oil on canvas

41 × 53 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144841

Gustave De Smet, White Shirt on Black Ground

Gustave De Smet

White Shirt on Black Ground, 1941

oil on canvas

41.5 × 26 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144834

Gustave De Smet, Girl with a Bouquet

Gustave De Smet

Girl with a Bouquet, 1938

oil on canvas

115 × 80.5 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144833

Gustave De Smet, Sunday

Gustave De Smet

Sunday, 1921

oil on canvas

179.5 × 139 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144810

Gustave De Smet, Still Life

Gustave De Smet

Still Life, 1940

oil on canvas

46.3 × 62.4 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144804

Gustave De Smet, Standing Nude

Gustave De Smet

Standing Nude, 1935

oil on canvas

98 × 55.7 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144786

Gustave De Smet, Clouds

Gustave De Smet

Clouds, 1933

oil on canvas

43.1 × 63.4 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144690

Gustave De Smet, Haystacks

Gustave De Smet

Haystacks, 1942

oil on canvas

40.8 × 50.8 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144688

Gustave De Smet, Sunset

Gustave De Smet

Sunset, 1942

oil on canvas

41.8 × 54.8 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144689

Gustave De Smet, Landscape with Black Italian Poplars

Gustave De Smet

Landscape with Black Italian Poplars, 1942

oil on canvas

35 × 46 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144687

Gustave De Smet, Girl in Pink

Gustave De Smet

Girl in Pink, 1937

oil on canvas

97 × 71 cm

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

C24-144624

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