Magda Francot (born in Antwerp on 30 July 1942) is a Belgian painter [1] who moved from an early Modernist period to a later commitment to the aims and techniques of Classical painting. She produces works in a realist style marked by strong foregrounding (in this, similar to the Pre-Raphaelites), an illustrative manner showing a determined orientation toward draughtsmanship and high-contrast lines, and in content is of Symbolist sympathies.
She is married to the architect Hug Francot, and as of 2006 was working in Antwerp and living in the Belgian town of Leuven. She runs a school for artists wishing to learn Classical techniques.
Three figure skating events were contested at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, but they were held in April 1920, four months before most of the other Olympic events at the 1920 Games. The figure skating competition took place at the Ice Palace of Antwerp.
Henri Leys, Hendrik Leys or Jan August Hendrik, Baron Leys was a Belgian painter and printmaker. He was a leading representative of the historical or Romantic school in Belgian art and became a pioneer of the Realist movement in Belgium. His history and genre paintings and portraits earned him a European-wide reputation and his style was influential on artists in and outside Belgium.
Egide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers was a Belgian painter. His work is generally considered to be Flemish and he signed his work with the Dutch form of his name, Gustaaf Wappers.
Jan Cox was Dutch-Belgian painter who spent the largest part of his creative life in the United States and Belgium. He was born in The Hague.
Antoine Joseph Wiertz was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor.
Caterina or Catharina van Hemessen was a Flemish Renaissance painter. She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work. She is mainly known for a series of small scale female portraits completed between the late 1540s and early 1550s and a few religious compositions.
Magdalena Godelieve Hilda "Magda" Aelvoet is a Belgian, Flemish politician. She is a former president of the Greens in the European Parliament.
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp is an art academy located in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, painter to the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and Don Juan of Austria. Teniers was master of the Guild of St Luke — which embraced arts and some handicrafts — and petitioned Philip IV of Spain, then master of the Spanish Netherlands, to grant a royal charter to establish a Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp. It houses the Antwerp Fashion Academy.
Sam Dillemans is a Belgian painter.
The women's individual skating event held as part of the figure skating at the 1920 Summer Olympics. It was the second appearance of the event and the sport, which had previously been held in 1908.
Nicaise de Keyser was a Belgian painter of mainly history paintings and portraits who was one of the key figures in the Belgian Romantic-historical school of painting.
Mattheus Ignatius van Bree was a Belgian painter. He was one of the founders of the historical school of painting in Belgium and played an important role as a teacher in the development of 19th-century Belgian art.
Bill Mosby was a portrait artist and an important American teacher of fine arts.
Antwerp is a city in Belgium and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, it is the most populous city proper in Belgium, and with a metropolitan population of around 1,200,000 people, it is the second-largest metropolitan region after Brussels.
Maria Jacoba Ommeganck was a Flemish neoclassicistic animal painter, specializing in pictures with cattle.
Despite its size, Belgium has a long and distinguished artistic tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, considerably pre-dating the foundation of the current state in 1830. Art from the areas making up modern Belgium is called in English Netherlandish up to the separation with the Netherlands from 1570 on, and Flemish until the 18th century.
Jan Baptist Huysmans was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp who is known for his Italianate and arcadian landscapes and architectural capricci.
Juliette Wytsman was a Belgian impressionist painter. She was married to painter Rodolphe Wytsman. Her paintings are in the collections of several museums in Belgium.
May Néama was an Antwerp artist. She was most known as a painter, illustrator, sculptor and graphic artist. She designed posters, decorations for the interior, illustrations for children’s book, stage sets and costumes, stamps, banknotes, advertising and packaging, playing cards. Néama was also member of the ‘Formes Nouvelles’ and won several prizes, including the “Prize Deauville” (1961), the “Biennial Prize of the Province of Antwerp” (1965), the Prize of the National Bank (1973) and the Golden Palm in Monaco (1974). She died on 25 November 2007 at the age of 90. Her ashes were scattered into nature in Antwerp, Belgium.