Eugeen Van Mieghem

Eugeen Van Mieghem is a painter, born with Antwerp on October 1st 1875 and dead the March 24th 1930. It is at the elementary school that its artistic talents appear, and it is in the neighborhoods of 1892, that it makes the discovery of works of Vincent Van Gogh, of Georges Seurat, Constantin Meunier and Henri of Toulouse-Lautrec, which will direct it towards realistic art. Its models and topics of inspiration will be from now on the small people revolving around the wearing of Antwerp.

Van Mieghem is success with the living room Free Esthetics of Brussels in 1901 where its exposed works its beside those of Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir or Edouard Vuillard.
Eugeen Van Mieghem marries Augustine Pautre in 1902, but this one falls ill in November 1904. It devotes many drawings and pastels to him.

Van Mieghem loses his wife and until in 1910 does not expose any more. Exposures to Antwerp follow, in 1912, then Cologne or $the Hague.

It exposes a series of works having the war for topic in March 1919, noticed by the critic, series that it will expose thereafter to Scheveningen. Appointed professor with the Academy of Antwerp in 1919, it will take part every year in exposures until its death.

Permanent exposure

Museum Eugeen Van Mieghem, Beatrijslaan 8, in Antwerp, since 1993.

External bond

http://www.vanmieghemmuseum.com

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