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Edgard Tytgat (1879 – 1957) The following information about this artist comes from the web pages of the Belgian Federal Portal: “Edgard Tytgat was born in Brussels.
Edgard tytgat biography
He combined expressionism with a poetic, sometimes dreamy style. “Tytgat spent his youth in Bruges, until the family moved to the capital in 1888. After a failed attempt to become a clock-maker, he attended the Brussels Fine Arts Academy in 1897.
As a young painter, he was influenced by the fauvism that had come to the city from Paris. This new tendency in art reached its peak between 1905 and 1907, and prepared the way for expressionism.
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Edgard Tytgat joined the Brabant fauvists, who were under the influence of impressionists and humanists and gathered around the figure of Rik Wouters. With around ten progressive artists, they met regularly in Auderghem, at the home of their colleague Auguste Oleffe.
In that period, Edgard Tytgat painted works in which the sense of construction and the str