Anto-chart

Chart Anto known as Anto-Chart born with Mons in 1886 and died with Ixelles in 1954, is a Belgian painter .

Biography

Wire of a carpenter and manufacturer of pieces of furniture, Anto-Chart enters at fourteen years the workshop of the painter, decorator, and contractor Frantz Depooter. From 1897 to 1908 he attends the academy of Mons then of Brussels where he follows the courses of Constant Montald, Emile Fabry and Jean Delville, three painters important Symbolists who exert on him a deep influence.

In 1912 and 1913, a purse enables him to go to Paris where it remains at Cavaillé-coll and Leon Bakst which works for the Russian Ballet of Serge de Diaghilev. It also meets in Paris Emile Verhaeren and discovers the work of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and of Maurice Denis. In 1917, his/her friend the painter Louis Buisseret exposes the drawings which Anto-Chart of Emile Verhearen made.

In 1923 at the time of the Parisian exposure Imagiers Belgian which joins together Gustave Van de Woestijne, Valérius de Sadeleer, Isidore Opsomer and Marcel Wolfers, it comes into contact with the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh to the United States where in 1925 a great retrospective takes place which ensures to him a durable success near the American public. From 1929 to 1932, he teaches at the Institute of higher learning of the Applied arts of Cambers in Brussels then as from 1932 with the royal Academy of Belgium.

In 1928, it founds with his friends the group Nervia Walloon equivalent of the Flemish expressionnism.

It carries out also drawings, engravings, illustrations of books; it creates posters, lithographies, banknotes and stamps; designs frescos and stained glasses as well as carpets. Its work is located at the edge of the symbolism and the naturalism and a Expressionnisme sometimes near to Käthe Kollwitz, and neo-realism while taking as a starting point the life of the minors, the peasants, the fishermen.

Selection of works

the death of the minor , oil on fabric, 114x125 cm, 1919.
Piéta , oil on fabric, 94x 112,5 cm, 1918, Art schools Mons.
Spring in the Brabant , (before 1934), Center Georges Pompidou
the merchant of cocks who constitutes the front page of the Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement Volume I, Institut Jules Destrée Namur, 2000.

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