Philippe Piers de Raveschoot

Philippe Piers de Raveschoot (April 29th, 1913 with Cruyshautem - December 13rd, 1999 with Dikkelvenne) was a Belgian painter .

Honorary president of the royal association of the professional artists of Belgium; Former member of the board of directors of the European Council of Art and Esthetics

In Dikkelvenne, in Flanders, the portraitist and marinist worked in the middle of a manor to the Frenchwoman where wrote the Count Louis of Lichtervelde, the historian of Léopold II.

It followed a 4 years formation to the Academy of Ghent and worked with Marcel Hess and Gaston Geleyn (1932-1936).

He is the author of landscapes, marines, flowers and especially of portraits. By the feature and modelled, without clashes, it gave to its characters one moment the interior expression of reflection, moment sometimes fugitive but how much spiritual. It gave the measurement of its know-how, by not concealing with the constraints of the kind all while refusing with pompeuses flatnesses of the ordered effigies.

It carried out many official portraits of which that of the king Baudouin for the embassy from Belgium to Washington.

Distinctions

Officer of the orders of Léopold 1st and Léopold II
Knight of the Order of the Crown
Knight about the St-Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

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